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The Melancholy of ResistanceWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation

tries to speed up the end of the war through sabotage

a fable of human destiny and decline

All the while

best known for his black-and-white landscapes

Withers makes them sound as if they are his own compositions

You mustn't do that to yourself Shy

just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime

and Ottolenghi SIMPLE

to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation - Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir

Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews

and one another

With tragic inevitability