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Strange Horizons has just published a collection of short notices from reviewers about what they read and viewed in 2013. I thought there were too many good things in 2013 for me to be able to even simply list them all in the 250 words I was allowed...

Franz Kafka. Shame, guilt and absurd injustice –and why we’re still haunted by the Kafkaesque. Guest Saul Friedländer, author of “Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt.” Pulitzer-prize winning historian of the Holocaust...

The final installment of Reiner Stach’s highly praised three-volume biography of Kafka—”This is one of the great literary biographies,” John Banville says, and he’s right—covers Kafka’s early years, 1883-1909. The books were published in this order—Kafka...

This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Yesterday on Yom Kippur, I underlined a statement by Franz Kafka’s biographer, Reiner Stach....

By Richard Marshall Joanna Walsh, Shklovsky’s Zoo, Piece Of Paper Press, 2015 It has a probing quality, pivoting without fumbling to strike its successive targets, moving at cantankerous pace. It has a low-key urgency in its tone, a sequence of discontinuities...