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, ...

Poland has been nominated 13 times for the best international feature Oscar and has won the prize once, for and won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film once, for Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida in ...

When Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis in 1924, his bequests included a literary style destined to supply an overused ...

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 ...

To mark the Kafka Year 2024, the Goethe-Institut Ethiopia, together with the Austrian Embassy, is showing a poster exhibition "Komplett Kafka" based on the comic biography by Nicolas Mahler about the ...

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 ...