The Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk may have impressive stature in the literary world, but to many in her native Poland, she’s ...

Image “The Empusium” takes its name from the Empusa, a female shape-shifter in ancient Greek mythology. The mysteries of Görbersdorf revolve around gender. Wojnicz comes from a culture that ...

Pulling from folktales, mythology, art, and literature, Tokarczuk’s novel spins a story that feels eerily familiar and yet ...

As in Mann’s novel, the gentlemen of The Empusium (a word-mash of “symposium” and the Greek shape-shifting goddess Empusa) ...

Novelists have been retelling existing tales for almost as long as they have been writing novels, so it’s unsurprising that ...