The Last Days of Franz K, with Tobias Menzies and James McVinnie

After a sell-out performance at this year’s Hay Festival, we’re pleased to announce the first London date for an evening of readings and music marking the centenary of Kafka’s death.

Inspired by the ways the LRB’s writers – from Alan Bennett to Patricia Lockwood, Rivka Galchen to Adam Phillips – have thought about Kafka over the years, and the publication of the first complete, uncensored English translation of his diaries.

With readings by the Emmy award-winning actor Tobias Menzies (Game of Thrones, Outlander, The Crown), interspersed with music from Max Richter’s album The Blue Notebooks – itself inspired by Kafka’s journals – performed by the celebrated organist and pianist, James McVinnie.