Melvin Jules Bukiet is the author, most recently, of the story collection "A Faker's Dozen" and teaches literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Since his death from tuberculosis at 40 in 1924, Franz ...

Standing on a rise overlooking the Spanish Mediterranean coast, there is an odd structure which could easily be mistaken for an vast pile of forgotten blocks. Kafka’s Castle, built in 1968, was one of ...

Ethan Lipkin (left) and David Stanger in the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of "Franz Kafka's The Castle." Photo courtesy of Johanna Austin. FRANZ KAFKA’S “THE CASTLE.” Franz Kafka’s ...

Michael Haneke’s vision of Kafka’s unfinished tome may be one of the purest literary adaptations ever filmed. Haneke is such a slave to the source material that the result is an almost anti-visual ...