In 2006, German author and editor Reiner Stach told an American reporter there was no definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Actually, there is. And he’s written it. My favorite book of 2013 is actually ...

In his biography of Franz Kafka, Max Brod declared that his friend never wrote a “single word” that was not “infused with a special magic charm.” Ever since the posthumous publication of Kafka’s work, ...

The best thing a biographer of Franz Kafka can do is bring the famed author back to earth. Not as regards his reputation, which is justifiably lofty. But to humanize Kafka and save him from our ...

Richard Eder, former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. WHEN Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” appeared posthumously in the 1920s, the German satirist and critic ...

The stories of Franz Kafka have long since passed into the proverbial, the kind of work you need not have read in order to know. Just as we speak of high-stakes intrigues as “Shakespearean,” and ...