Introduction / Carolin Duttlinger

Part I. Life and Work. 1. Family / Anthony Northey ; 2. Friendship / Claudia Nitschke ; 3. Women / Elizabeth Boa ; 4. Work / Benno Wagner ; 5. Health and illness / Johannes Turk ; 6. Writing / Manfred Engel ; 7. Style / Ritchie Robertson

Part II. Art and Literature. 8. Literary modernism / Judith Ryan ; 9. Kafka's reading / Ritchie Robertson ; 10. Gesture / Lucia Ruprecht ; 11. Performance and recitation / Lothar Müller ; 12. Film / Silke Horstkotte ; 13. Photography / J.J. Long ; 14. Music / Thomas Martinec ; 15. Architecture / Roger Thiel

Part III. Politics, Culture, History. 16. Prague : history and culture / Marek Nekula ; 17. Czech language and literature / Peter Zusi ; 18. The First World War / Mark Cornwall ; 19. Travel, colonialism and exoticism / Matthias Zach ; 20. Law / Theodore Ziolkowski ; 21. Philosophy / Ben Morgan ; 22. Religion / Daniel Weidner ; 23. Judaism and Zionism / Katja Garloff ; 24. Psychology and psychoanalysis / Carolin Duttlinger ; 25. Gender and sexuality / Mark M. Anderson ; 26. The city / Andrew J. Webber ; 27. Childhood, pedagogy and education / Katharina Laszlo ; 28. Ethnography and anthropology / Nicola Gess

Part IV. Reception and Influence. 29. Early critical reception / Ruth V. Gross ; 30. Critical theory / Anthony Phelan ; 31. Deconstruction / Stanley Corngold ; 32. Reading Kafka / Emily T. Troscianko ; 33. Editions / Clayton Koelb ; 34. Translation / Mark Harman ; 35. Film adaptations / Dora Osborne.