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 ...

In his biography of Franz Kafka, Max Brod declared that his friend never wrote a “single word” that was not “infused with a special magic charm.” Ever since the posthumous publication of Kafka’s work, ...

Richard Eder, former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. WHEN Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” appeared posthumously in the 1920s, the German satirist and critic ...

The celebrated author of “The Metamorphosis” had a lifelong interest in Jewish ideas, especially Yiddish theater. (JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his Hebrew ...

The story is well known: the frail, anxiety-ridden young man in Prague who suffers under an overbearing, uncouth father. Every day he trudges off to his boring job at an insurance company. He is drawn ...

The Polish Film Institute has picked Agnieszka Holland ‘s Kafka, a non-chronological and playful biopic on iconic Czech ...

But we secretly sort of love them too, especially when they're a little tacky, and preferably accurate enough to offer the cinematic equivalent of a well-edited Wikipedia page or, for the more serious ...

Agnieszka Holland's feverish new biopic on Kafka often finds itself pouring over his desk or sneaking glimpses of his love letters. In a surreal tableaux, these pages swirl on the steps of his ...

ORF-Enterprise has secured the distribution rights for Kafka, a miniseries co-produced by Superfilm, ORF and ARD. The six-parter, set to premiere in spring 2024, tells the story of the peculiar ...

Nicolas Mahler is a comic illustrator whose book “Komplett Kafka” (Completely Kafka) is published by Suhrkamp Verlag in Kafka’s centenary year 2024, and it will tour as an exhibition. Ulrich Fügener ...