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What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? His single authorized biography is mired in controversy. Scholars say it shouldn’t be the last word, but they are struggling for access to his vast and in some cases inaccessible private archives. Philip Roth at his New York City home in 2018. His friends worry that the controversy around his biography, published this year, has affected his legacy.Credit...Philip Montgomery for The New York Times June 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. �...

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An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling. Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project’s curator Stefan Litte tells AFP. The documents exist thanks to Brod’s decision to break a pact with his friend Kafka, the acclaimed Czech Jewish author of “The Trial” and “The Metamorphosis,” who as he suffered from tuberculosis asked that his writings...

Dr. Stefan Litt of the National Library of Israel shows on a computer the online site for the works by Jewish German-speaking novelist and story writer Franz Kafka, at the National Library of Israel, in Jerusalem on May 31, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling. Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project’s curator ...

Kafka letters, drawings made publicly available online