31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 4: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges; James E. Irby, trans.
Several critics have noted the strong influence Kafka had on Borges's writing and thinking.
“Fun in Hell”: Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Krasznahorkai has been compared to other Eastern European writers such as Kafka and Thomas Bernhard.
Storming the castle: Christine Estima’s novel rescues the figure of Milena Jesenská, inamorata of Franz Kafka, from the mist of history
Estima fills in the gaps in a richly imagined work of historical fiction.
Dying wishes: When, and how, should literary heirs or executors be permitted to publish work against an author’s explicit demands?
Gonzalo García Barcha and his elder brother Rodrigo go so far as to call the publication of Until August "an act of betrayal."
The Spooky Season: Imaginative horror’s place in a disordered world
Weirdly, horror fiction is one of those places capable of provoking a sense of calm.
Grim reading: Will Self surveys the literary landscape and collapses in a slough of despond
Self's surpassing hauteur and in-your-face grandiosity have a propulsive charm in themselves
Tony Burgess on the most terrifying reading experience of his life
“I thought there were things this book could do to me that were dangerous.”