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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. When Kafka began drafting The Castle on the very day of his arrival in Spindelmühle, it was the first sustained ...

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 ...

Franz Kafka's reflection on blindness and truth explains how fear, ignorance and rigid beliefs block understanding. The quote ...