FRANZ is dedicated to creative engagement with Franz Kafka's life and work, including the first-ever publication of his complete letters in English. Click to read FRANZ, a Substack publication with hu...

Smash­ing the Tablets: Rad­i­cal Retellings of the Hebrew Bible is a bold, new c

Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers

A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel, The Castle Seth Rogoff's masterful and mesmerizing novel, The Castle, ...

On: Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

“Is this Milena?” The graphic artist working with us on redesigning FRANZ texted me a photo snapped from my copy of Hartmut Binder’s Kafkas Welt (Kafka’s World), an extraordinarily comprehensive picto...

On Kafka's "The Great Wall of China"

A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel, The Castle Seth Rogoff's masterful and mesmerizing novel, The Castle, ...

Reflections on "A Country Doctor," Part II

Franz Kafka began writing the novel The Castle in 1922 and died two years later, before he could finish it.

As Told To · Episode

Lot's daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arrives in the form of an avaricious former sorority girl--Smashing the Tablets pres...

This year Granta invited contributors to reflect on what they read in 2024.

Prague, 4 February 1902, Tuesday

Reflections on Kafka's "A Country Doctor"

Prague, after 19 January 1901

Prague, 20 November 1897 (?)

and the next century of engagement with Franz Kafka's legacy

FRANZ is dedicated to creative engagement with Franz Kafka's life and work, including the first-ever publication of his complete letters in English. Click to read FRANZ, a Substack publication. Launch...

Reviews of new books by Marcela Sulak, Seth Rogoff, Vítězslav Nezval and Seamus Heaney.

Ryan Ruby is a writer and literary critic, whose work explores the intersection of politics, literature, and poetry. His texts have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and many ...

Kafka 2024 is a yearlong festival of exhibitions, concerts, discussions, theatre, film, readings and lectures.

February 6 (morning)Yesterday, toward evening, I returned to the schoolhouse. I searched the teacher’s desk and discovered a notebook. I stayed up late