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

One is starting to need a guide, in the form perhaps of several family trees, to the increasingly expansive yet interlocked ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sally Rooney, Tony Tulathimutte, and more of the season’s best fiction, paired with Chanel, Khaite, The Row, and more.

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