Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick , an essayist and a fiction writer, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1977. Her books include “ In a Yellow Wood: Selected Stories and Essays .”

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The Impossibility of Translating Franz Kafka

a critic at large · January 11, 1999

Cynthia Ozick writes about the difficulties of translating the work of the writer Franz Kafka, who possessed a mind so elusive that it escaped even the comprehension of its own sensibility.

No Taste for Accounting

personal history · August 3, 1998

From 1998: Cynthia Ozick on life after graduate school, lunch breaks in Bryant Park, and avoiding a future in accounting.

At Fumicaro

fiction · August 6, 1984

Frank Castle, a 35-year-old Catholic journalist, left N.Y. on an Italian liner and went to the Villa Garibaldi, in Fumicaro, Italy. He was attending a …

The Shawl

fiction · May 26, 1980

Fiction by Cynthia Ozick: “Every morning Rosa had to conceal Magda under the shawl against a wall of the barracks.”