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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a scene from the new miniseries “Kafka,” when a Yiddish theater troupe from Eastern Europe tours Prague, the titular character Franz Kafka is among the audience. The Czech Jewish literary ...

With just one modest anecdote, you may fathom the Torah! Franz Kafka wasn’t a rabbi, exactly, but he is the high priest of 20th-century literature, and he also wrote in parables. In a brief one ...

The financier John Pierpont Morgan and the writer Franz Kafka appear at first blush to be an odd pair. The titan of finance from Hartford was a modern Midas. The Jewish writer from Prague died young ...

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. A distinguished ...