Franz Kafka, Author, read by Alan Scarfe, Jack Wetherall. CBC Audio $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-660-19550-6 Relatively unknown as a writer during his short lifetime, Kafka (1883–1924) became a major ...

Far from being completely unmusical, as he himself claimed, Kafka's unconventional tastes were ahead of his time, argues Will Self As with so much concerning Kafka – his strange life, and stranger ...

The Castle is Kafka at his most beautiful and, perhaps, his most emotional. The Trial and Metamorphoses are full of their own depth, and their own complicated sadness, but they don't strike the heart ...

Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

On Nov. 5, the Kelly Writers House hosted a conversation with translator Mark Harman about his new translation of Franz Kafka’s “Selected Stories.” The event consisted of Harman discussing the process ...

The best thing a biographer of Franz Kafka can do is bring the famed author back to earth. Not as regards his reputation, which is justifiably lofty. But to humanize Kafka and save him from our ...

In 2006, German author and editor Reiner Stach told an American reporter there was no definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Actually, there is. And he’s written it. My favorite book of 2013 is actually ...

Franz Kafka’s quote reminds us that happiness isn’t life’s destination, but a quiet consequence of living with meaning, acceptance, and purpose.

Earlier today, the LA Review of Books published an interview with Jewish book cover designer, Peter Mendelsund. Even if you don’t recognize the name, if you’re a reader you’ve almost certainly seen ...