Benjamin Balint is the author most recently of Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (Norton). He is also the author of Kafka’s Last Trial (Norton) and co-author, with Merav Mack, of Jerusalem: City of the Book (Yale University Press). His essays appear in the Wall Street Journal, Haaretz, Die Zeit, and the Jewish Review of Books, and his translations from the Hebrew have appeared in the New Yorker.