LRB Diary for 2024 - 52 Ways of Thinking about Kafka (Main)

'It was a comfort to read him in a year when everyone again had the same disease. She thought she could work through him, if she could not work through herself; she thought she could use his hands, if she could not use her own.' - Patricia Lockwood Mark the centenary of Kafka's death with the London Review of Books. From Kafka's attention-seeking to Kafka's clothes, Kafka and gay literature to Kafka and The Lord of the Rings, Kafka at the football to Kafka on BookTok, by writers including Elif Batuman, Alan Bennett, Judith Butler, Anne Carson, Amit Chaudhuri, Jenny Diski, Penelope Fitzgerald, Rivka Galchen, Jonatham Lethem, Adam Phillips, Philip Roth, Colm Tóibín, Marina Warner and many more - including Kafka himself.