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A new book asks: To whom do the surviving remnants of the Jewish artist’s output — including murals he was forced to paint for a Nazi’s home — belong?

His miniature literary legacy – two unfinished novels, a few dozen longer and short stories, letters, diaries and fragments – remains monumental to this date.

To me, thinking and not-thinking are often the same thing, and that’s clearest when I have an eraser in hand. The recent landmark publication of Franz Kafka’s illustrations in The Drawings, edited by Andrea Kilcher, a professor of literature and cultural studies in Zurich, has led me to think more about the ways in which these two states of being—if they are different—benefit from each other.

Recent “sensitivity” edits to the author’s beloved yet unabashedly disagreeable novels are all about maintaining a lucrative IP. But what difference can a few changed words really make?

During a recent drive to campus, I found myself getting into a deep conversation about literature, music and philosophy with my son, an undergraduate