"The Books Of Jacob" by Olga Tokarczuk is a colossal work - an epic, a fable, a history, sometimes a satire, always a magnum opus. It tells the story of Jacob Frank, an 18th century religious leader - ...

Assembling a timeline of for Olga Tokarczuk’s fiction requires some diligence. Her “new” book — released in the States last November — is “The Books of Jacob.” But Tokarczuk published the book in her ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and the book-length edition of the “1619 Project” are among the nominees for Kirkus Prizes, $50,000 honors given in three competitive ...

Nobel Prize winner Tokarczuk (The Books of Jacob) delivers the disarming tale of a Silesian tuberculosis ward and a series of mysterious deaths in the surrounding countryside. Mieczysław Wojnicz, a ...

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its ...

Nobel winners Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke bring us a reissue and a new book respectively this week. Also, a story from a ...

This 965-page novel by Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk took me seven weeks to read. While that might seem like a long commitment, it’s nothing compared to the seven years its author spent writing ...

Again and again her characters contend with the changing physical borders within which they and their families must live, in ...