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

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

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

August is a lot of things: it’s uncomfortably hot, it’s National Panini Month and it’s somehow already time for your kids to go back to school. But August is also Women in Translation Month, a yearly ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...