An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

If you've ever felt powerless when confronted with faceless bureaucracy, confounded by absurd accusations or simply hopeless, chances are the word "kafkaesque" might sum up your situation. But a ...

A six-part TV series, starring Joel Basman as the enigmatic author, is streaming on Channel 4's Walter Presents and ChaiFlicks in time for the June 6 centenary of Kafka's death. By Scott Roxborough ...

This essay is adapted from the afterword to the author’s new translation of “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka. Kafka’s celebrated novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) was written a century ...

The customary presumption that problems on a test can be solved proved the undoing of some students in an advanced mathematics course recently at Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology. The episode ...

Premiering at TIFF, the 'Green Border' director's non-chronological feature views the Czech-German-Jewish writer's life as if through a crystal prism. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic In ...

A new book of the modernist’s sketches reveals the tension he saw between words and images. Beneath this drawing ca. 1901-07, in India ink on a sheet of paper that is now torn, Kafka wrote, in German: ...