Literary Culture

Literary culture explores how a society celebrates its literary accomplishments. The section contains resources about book shops in Eurasia – which also often function as cultural institutions themselves with readings, author presentations, and more. You’ll find below information about literary museums as well as authors’ house museums (preserved former residences, open to the public).

Book Review of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones is an expertly woven folk horror story that grapples with the explosion of philosophies that overtook Europe at the turn of the last century as well as questions of gender and the ways in which we interpret the world […]

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