The Nobel Prize winner’s newly translated novel is set at a European sanatorium on the eve of World War I.

Her latest novel, The Empusium, is more focused on dictating a salient political message than pushing the bounds of art.

In a 2022 interview, the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk said that she returns to it every few years. “It’s interesting to see a ...

The Empusium explores similar themes to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, blending horror, comedy and feminism with brilliant ...

Instead, The Empusium is an emphatic triumph – a feast of culture, both literary and popular, highbrow and low, that shows ...

Ceremonial dinner in an “Uncut Gems” scene ...

Nothing is ever quite as it seems in the world of Olga Tokarczuk. Her latest novel starts with an epigraph taken from ...

Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

Health resorts are not always good for your health. In September 1913, this is the grim discovery made by Mieczysław Wojnicz, ...

Novels from France, Poland and India – with politics, sanatoriums, automata and horror in the mix too. Kate and Cassie read ...

This fall brings new fiction from CanLit stalwarts and international heavy hitters, along with plenty of fiction that ...