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 ...

Exhibitions focused on writers are often an uneasy balance of biography and interpretation, image and text, but Franz Kafka, who continues to fascinate and confound readers well into the 21st century, ...

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 ...

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

Newcomer Idan Weiss stars as the iconic Czech writer in the new biopic from the director of 'Green Border' and 'In Darkness' that premiered at Toronto. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Her ...

Franz Kafka, a renowned Jewish Czech writer, penned tales of fear and isolation. His famous quote, 'God gives the nuts, but ...

As biopic subjects go, Franz Kafka is resistant to standard-issue treatment on a number of levels — beginning with the fact that his life, short and largely uncelebrated in its time, wasn’t especially ...

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 ...

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 ...

The judge also said the men, expelled under the Alien Enemies Act, were likely to prevail in their claims that they had been treated unfairly, deported with no chance to contest their removals. By ...