That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado Museum during its opening hours — even though he’s been invited to browse anytime as part of a month-long literary ...

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Written in a single, 406-page long sentence, the new novel from International Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai achieves some extraordinary effects, writes Stuart Kelly ...

As so often, I am late to the party on this one; The Empusium is my first Tokarczuk read. The party I anticipated was a big ...

For Irish novelist John Banville, the captivating eyes in the paintings at Spain's Prado Museum offer an intense connection ...

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The huge 17th-century painting shows the Infanta Margarita, her young ladies-in-waiting, a dwarf, a buffoon with a dog, a nun ...

Spooky Season is finally upon us, and what better time of year to read a horror novel that will have you checking under the bed for monsters, questioning every ...

In this interview, acclaimed translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones shares her unique approach to translating Polish literature into ...

Drawing from Words Without Borders’ rich archive of contemporary stories, essays, and poems in translation, Words Without Borders Campus connects students and educators to eye-opening contemporary ...

Then, there are those who didn’t pursue writing at university. Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, who won the Nobel Prize in 2018, pursued clinical psychology at the University of Warsaw and graduated with ...

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