Franz Kafka's profound quote, "It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary," ...

Imagine a serpent as long as a small plane, weighing over a ton! This was Titanoboa, the prehistoric king of the Amazon.

Day 22 saw the World Cup turn into a Kafka fanfic. Ronaldo became a giant insect, Spain gave Austria a lesson in passing ...

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his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

To understand the bureaucratic state, read Franz Kafka. Few writers have his knack to convey the peculiar, perverse effects the modern leviathan exerts on the soul as forcefully as this quiet Prague ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Man behind bars – Franz Kafka (1924). Public domain. Background image: Shutterstock “A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Agnieszka Holland, the director of Oscar nominated films like “Angry Harvest,” “Europa Europa” and “In Darkness,” set out to ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. When Kafka began drafting The Castle on the very day of his arrival in Spindelmühle, it was the first sustained ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As biopic subjects go, Franz Kafka is resistant to standard-issue treatment on a number of levels — beginning with the fact that ...

Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis A rare letter written by Franz Kafka to his publisher shows just ...

If ever there was an author whose works resisted analysis, it’s Franz Kafka. What does it mean, after all, that Gregor Samsa wakes up in “The Metamorphosis” and finds himself turned into a bug? In ...