(JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his Hebrew teacher and once encountered the owner of a brothel he frequented in synagogue on Yom Kippur. The broad strokes of ...

An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

'If I have the great wish to be a track and field athlete,' Kafka wrote in 1921, 'it is probably the same as if I wished to go to heaven and to be permitted to be as despairing there as here' - ...

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

Franz Kafka, dying of tuberculosis, wanted his manuscripts burned to ash. Instead, they have become something like Moses’s burning bush, showing no signs of being consumed. The latest crackle is a new ...

THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)—Edited by Max Brod—Schocken ($3.75). In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your best friend — a talented writer — is dying. One of his last requests is that you burn his unpublished manuscripts. But you ...