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Musician of the Month: Magdalena Jacob

My musical journey started with a lot of Church organ and Bohemian brass music in a tiny village in Bavaria –  and when I say village I really mean it. At the age of five I developed a desperate desire to learn the guitar, because my mum had one (for her kindergarten group and she … Read more

Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob

In a quiet room, two men smoke hashish and discuss the inevitability of the Apocalypse. All the signs are apparent: unusual weather conditions, social unrest, unendurable suffering caused by poverty and war. Searching for a loophole, they weave theories of increasing complexity, involving Messiahs, the reversing of the Old Laws, and the triumph of the … Read more