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 ...

True progress sometimes emerges from taking steps that seem counterproductive at first glance. Kafka's philosophy hints that, ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with lead actor Joel Basman and director David Schalko about his German-Austrian miniseries Kafka on early 20th century... Franz Kafka's life wasn't so kafkaesque after all, ...

Franz Kafka's profound quote, "It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary," offers a stark warning about societal pressures. His insights, shaped by ...

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

The biopic is such a staid genre that any attempt at doing something unique with its form is cause for excitement, if not outright celebration. Franz is that sort of daring endeavor, investigating the ...

Kafka's world is chaotic. It is a world that is often found lurking in the darkest corners of our minds, shrouded by melancholy and devoid of happiness. On the occasion of his 139th birth anniversary ...

To understand the bureaucratic state, read Franz Kafka. Few writers have his knack to convey the peculiar, perverse effects the modern leviathan exerts on the soul as forcefully as this quiet Prague ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As biopic subjects go, Franz Kafka is resistant to standard-issue treatment on a number of levels — beginning with the fact that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Agnieszka Holland, the director of Oscar nominated films like "Angry Harvest," "Europa Europa" and "In Darkness," set out to ...

If ever there was an author whose works resisted analysis, it’s Franz Kafka. What does it mean, after all, that Gregor Samsa wakes up in “The Metamorphosis” and finds himself turned into a bug? In ...