Franz Kafka’s The Trial revolves around a surrealistic legal procedure governed by a nontransparent logic. At times it seems a criticism of what scholars call “legal indeterminacy,” that is, the ...

There are nearly a dozen different English translations of “The Trial,” by Franz Kafka, each with different abridged entries and author’s margins to give context to their passages. There is one ...

In the first episode of “Loki,” the titular God of Mischief learns what Kafka proposed long ago: the world is controlled not by deities and strongmen, but by the soft totalitarianism of paper pushers.

Comparing a film to a fever dream is the hoariest of critical clichés (it’s right up there with calling something Kafkaesque), but some clichés have a basis in fact. The first time I watched Orson ...

Exclusive: Welles' disturbing 1962 Franz Kafka adaptation starred Anthony Perkins in his post-"Psycho" mode. It's now returning to theaters courtesy of Studiocanal and Rialto Pictures. Unless you’re ...

Somebody must have laid false information against [him], for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. So began the story of the 14-year ordeal endured by the former Sutton ...

The Visitation, an opera based loosely on Franz Kafka’s The Trial, is U.S. Composer Gunther Schuller’s way of dealing “with the Kafkaesque in the Negro problem.” Judging by the response of the Hamburg ...