In Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s newly translated novel, “The Empusium,” a tubercular youth convalesces at a sanatorium in Central Europe on the eve of World War I. The young man, Mieczysław ...

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 ...

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 ...

With her novel “The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story,” Ms. Tokarczuk—like Mann, a recipient of the Nobel Prize—has fashioned a fictional response to “The Magic Mountain.” ...

Her new novel, The Empusium, a “feminist retelling” of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, is set in Austria-Hungary in 1913. Mieczysław Wojnicz is sick with tuberculosis and sent to a ...

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 ...