Introduction: Kafka's Europe / Julian Preece -- Kafka's writing and our reading / David Constantine -- A psychoanalytic reading of The man who disappeared / Anne Fuchs -- The exploration of the modern city in The trial / Rolf J. Goebel -- The castle / Elizabeth Boa -- Kafka's short fiction / Ruth V. Gross -- Kafka's later stories and aphorisms / Stanley Corngold -- The letters and diaries / Julian Preece -- The case for a political reading / Bill Dodd -- Kafka and Jewish folklore / Iris Bruce -- Kafka and gender / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Myths and realities in Kafka biography / Anthony Northey -- Editions, translations, adaptations / Osman Durrani -- Kafka adapted to film / Martin Brady, Helen Hughes -- Kafka and popular culture / Iris Bruce.