A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy. By Benjamin Balint Benjamin Balint is the author of “Kafka’s Last Trial” and, most recently ...

And Franz Kafka is played by Joel Basman, who plays him as a tightly coiled repressed loner, who speaks softly, but whose words either make you wince or laugh. He's awkward around most women, but ...

100 years after the death of Franz Kafka, a new mini-series aims to dive beneath the surface of an author who remains enigmatic even as his influence on the culture continues to grow.. Kafka, an ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with lead actor Joel Basman and director David Schalko about his German-Austrian miniseries Kafka on early 20th century author Franz Kafka, released in the U.S. from June 6.

Ahead of Kaiju No. 8 season 2's release, the manga is ending soon. But an underwhelming development highlights some problems ...

For decades, the French surgeon Thierry Bouchet collected Franz Kafka’s books. Some pieces from his collection are being sold ...

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his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...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 writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month shy of his 41st birthday. A century after his death, the books and stories by the Jewish writer from Prague remain widely read ...

Franz Kafka (Joel Basman) and his friend Max Brod (David Kross) in a scene from the new miniseries ‘Kafka.’ (Courtesy of ChaiFlicks) “He has invented something that’s just unbelievable as ...

On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of literary translation gathered for a roundtable discussion with award-winning translator Mark Harman.

There are nearly a dozen different English translations of “The Trial, ” by Franz Kafka, each with different abridged entries and author’s margins to give context to their passages. There is one ...

When you think of Franz Kafka, there are a few words that likely come to mind: Lonely, tortured, isolated. But this depiction doesn’t actually tell the full story of Kafka, a new exhibit at The ...