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

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

The Empusium, Olga Tokarczuk’s retelling of The Magic Mountain, may not be as compelling as her earlier works – but the prose ...

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

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

Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, who lives in the Kłodzko Valley - an area severely impacted by this year’s floods - has ...

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

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

Awesome great-grandmothers and the rights of women, forest democracy and mindfulness. What else are contemporary Polish writers – Olga Tokarczuk and Magdalena Tulli among others – talking about to our ...

Now Croft, who is perhaps best known for her English translations of the Polish Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk (she also works in Spanish and Ukrainian), is again weighing in on the ethics of ...

Books by Louise Erdrich, Jesmyn Ward and others have interrogated the boundaries meant to contain us.

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