It was in Prague in the ’20s that Franz Kafka wrote his chilling allegories ... Nowadays it is best seen after dark, for night alone can mask the soot and uncollected refuse that mar its crooked ...

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

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.

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 ...

Just as Franz Kafka’s prose both demands and evades interpretation, something about his legacy has both solicited and resisted claims of ownership. Despite his astonishing clairvoyance about the ...

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 ...

The correspondence is undated, but experts think Kafka wrote it in the spring of 1920. Sotheby’s One of Franz Kafka’s characteristic lamentations of writer’s block, captured in a handwritten ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief 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 ...

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 ...