Books
Amos Oz wins Kafka Prize – could the Nobel be next?
May 28, 2013
Israeli author Amos Oz has been named the recipient of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize, selected by an international jury from a short list of 12 globally recognized writers.
Everyone’s life is some kind of love story. No one has nothing to tell.
May 11, 1986
Franz Kafka’s 130th birthday doodle: His metamorphosis to great author
July 3, 2013
A new translation of his first novel -- about an immigrant in a phantasmagorical America -- may be less a metaphor than a reading of the author’s self-perception.Amerika: The Missing Person A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text -- Franz Kafka Translated and with a Preface by Mark Harman Schocken: 300 pp., $25
Dec. 28, 2008
Why are we so obsessed with Franz Kafka?
Jan. 28, 1996
If Wednesday’s Google Doodle looks a little buggy, if you will, that’s because it’s meant to celebrate Franz Kafka, the “Metamorphosis” author who would have turned 130 today.
Lifestyle
An illustrator guesses the favorite plants of Agatha Christie, Joan Didion, Leo Tolstoy and other authors in this comic.
March 7, 2022
Opinion
A hundred years before us, Kafka offered a revealing window into the current strangeness of our lives.
July 8, 2021
Franz Kafka was born 105 years ago, but his surreal stories of modern alienation remain resonant today.