On Nov. 5, the Kelly Writers House hosted a conversation with translator Mark Harman about his new translation of Franz Kafka’s “Selected Stories.” The event consisted of Harman discussing the process ...

Translating Kafka could be deeply affecting. Primo Levi once described emerging from the task “as if from an illness.” ...

Franz Kafka asserts that impactful books should disrupt and provoke introspection, rather than merely comfort.

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other languages, too, ...

Franz Kafka's words offer solace in today's chaotic world. His quote on remaining still and listening to the world reveals ...

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

Franz Kafka's quote reflects on the enduring nature of hope, suggesting that even amidst isolation, confusion, and emotional ...

The National Library of Israel completes its collection of the Max Brod archive, including items such as notebooks and ...