Stop Trying to Understand Kafka
His parables aren’t supposed to make sense.
Judith Shulevitz
Judith Shulevitz is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She has been a columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Slate, New York magazine, and The New Republic. She was a founding editor of Slate and Lingua Franca, and a senior editor at New York and The New Republic. Her book, The Sabbath World, was a New York Times notable book, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and a recipient of the American Library Association’s award for Jewish literature. She is working on a book for the Yale Jewish Lives series.
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