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And what about Germany? Incongruous though it may seem, this question is, consciously or not, at heart of every text K publishes which takes this central European country as its…

For this week in the middle of summer, we have chosen to put back on the front page three texts concerning the circulation of Yiddish that have appeared in K….

  We published in our 12 May edition an article by Rudy Reichstadt on the misuse of the yellow star. Since then, the absurd logic that underlies the use of…

Discreet and fundamental, so goes the fiction in K. For it is to fiction that the magazine owes its name, its letter of guardianship, its number – to Kafka’s initial…

This week we have chosen, in addition to the publication of a new interview of Shulim Vogelmann by Giorgio Berruto, to republish two texts about Italy. Also, we have handed…

We celebrated the birthday of Franz Kafka last week, and this week we turn to Marcel Proust, born 150 years ago on 10 July. The two authors were almost contemporaries…

“He who walks on his head has depths of the heavens beneath him.” Paul Celan, when he wrote these lines, was speaking of the poet Lenz, who sometimes liked to…

In K. this week, Avishag Zafrani interviews Yolande Zauberman, the director of Me Ivan, You Abraham (1993), Would You Have Sex with an Arab? (2011), and M (2018). She is…

  From the vantage point of Europe, Israel tends to catch us out. Even the most astute commentators often find themselves dumbstruck. No one could have anticipated the Netanyahu era…