Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world, even though he has been dead for 100 years. So why ...

Why do we continue to find Franz Kafka so compelling 100 years after his death? Why is Kafka still considered to be so modern and contemporary? What awaits us in Kafka’s anniversary year of 2024?

Woodrow Hartzog suggests that privacy law recenter baseline protections, rather than individual consent, to best protect users from AI-specific threats. "The societal structure model that Dan [Solove] ...

When I was 20 years old, I committed armed robbery and murdered a man in the process. Two years later, in November of 1980, I was sentenced, the news media and my parents standing by. I was ...

The question of Nikolai Gogol’s “belonging”—especially now, as Ukrainian and Russian cultures, long bound by an imperial past ...

A "Kafkaesque" 11-year fight to bring together author Franz Kafka's papers has come to an end after the last batch arrived in Israel. The National Library unveiled the documents after years of ...

A collection of documents by the author Franz Kafka is now publicly available online, following intensive restoration, cataloguing and digitisation. The digitised collection includes three draft ...

We know that Franz Kafka was himself a good illustrator and also liked to go to the cinema. We can therefore presume that he might have enjoyed visual versions of his works, such as comics. From ...

Franz Kafka centenary was commemorated in New Delhi with ‘I, Josef’, an unusual ‘headphone theatre’ performance of the German author’s unfinished novella, ‘The Trial’ On an evening ...

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Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become ...