A review of The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka, edited by Reiner Stach & translated by Shelly Frisch. The English version of Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, which was published in German almost a decade ...
The rabbis of the Talmud taught in parables, fanciful tales meant to illustrate moral principles. To what may a parable be compared? one of them once asked, that being the form of most rabbinical ...