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. By Scott ...

But a television miniseries released in the U.S. this month shows Prague-born author Franz Kafka, whose work inspired the word, as anything but kafkaesque. Tortured recluse he is not here.

Franz Kafka wasn’t a rabbi ... He read literary magazines that published cutting-edge work, too. Still, his regular reading of the Bible—nightly, during some periods of his life—contributed ...

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 ...

Social media is turning the enigmatic Jewish writer into a shallow meme, writes the author of a new novel based on his work. The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month ...

When you think of Franz Kafka, there are a few words that ... The exhibit also digs into other famed Kafka works, including The Castle. Though Kafka was engaged multiple times, he never married.

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other ...

On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of ... Yet, Harman continues to translate Kafka's works, making them accessible to broader audiences.

On view are original and related items that illuminate Kafka’s life story, his works, his relationships and his attitudes toward Judaism, Yiddish and Zionism. The first section of the exhibit ...

Lots of people before said, ‘It can’t work, no actor could do Kafka.’ I think Joel did a ... assimilated and traditional Jewish worlds collide when Franz brings home a dinner guest ...

The academy aimed to look at German as the source language from which works would be translated into several South Asian languages. In the first run, Franz Kafka’s fiction — such as selections ...