Kirsch, Adam. "America, 'Amerika.'" NEW YORK TIMES January 2, 2009.

Kafka, Franz. Amerika: the Missing Person. Trans. Mark Harman. New York: Schoken, 2008. Now Schocken Books, which has been the main publisher of Kafka’s works since the 1930s, hopes to reintroduce his first novel to the world with a new translation, by Mark Harman. “If approached afresh,” Harman promises in his introduction, “this book could bear out the early claim by . . . Brod that ‘precisely this novel . . . will reveal a new way of understanding Kafka.’” . . . Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all.