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.

A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for auction. Best-known for the 1915 novella “The Metamorphosis,” the Prague-born Jewish writer ...

Franz Kafka, as portrayed here, was surrounded by oppression, regimentation, and rejection. Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, and his stern father constantly ridiculed and belittled him.

By Franz Kafka, translated by Mark Harman. Buy Book. Putting transformation back into the title opens up new dimensions in the story—new, that is, to English-language readers.

Thanks to a blistering new translation by acclaimed translator and writer Ross Benjamin, the NC-17 Diaries of Franz Kafka are, for the first time, available to the English-speaking world ...

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 ...

A six-part TV series, starring Joel Basman as the enigmatic author, is streaming on Channel 4's Walter Presents and ChaiFlicks in time for the June 6 centenary of Kafka's death.

An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

International buyers are swooning over The Glory of Life, a very un-Kafkaesque love story about Franz Kafka and his last romance.. The German-language drama, from directors Judith Kaufmann and ...

Franz Kafka’s manuscripts are displayed during a 2019 press conference at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Photo by Getty Images. By Benjamin Ivry January 23, 2023.

Franz Kafka’s passport photograph c.1915. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Joseph K.’s grisly fate plays out in an anonymised city, most likely derived from Kafka’s home of Prague.