Jeff Fort is the author of a forthcoming book on the “imperative to write” in Kafka, Beckett, and Maurice Blanchot. He has also translated books by Blanchot, Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, and, most recently, Jean-Luc Nancy. He currently teaches at U.C. Berkeley and at the San Francisco Art Institute.

• March 2006: The Man Who Could Not Disappear
  Why do we care about the details, large and small, of Kafka’s life?