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.

I hope everyone's weeks are going well although midterms are coming sooner than we’d all imagined they would. The best thing ...

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

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

Inventories, chronicles, lists and the literary archive are always present. Tokarczuk’s latest novel, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, ...

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

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

War, politics, faith, family, and desire come together in this 2024 Booker longlisted novel. In the futuristic world of this ...

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

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 ...