"The Czech writer’s darkly humorous novel, published in 1936, anticipated our current reality with eerie accuracy."

" Don’t get me started on how pre-pandemic downtown was littered with goo-touching platforms and rosé-drunk ball pits and colour-field walls labelled with hashtag prompts, like an alternative, infantile, tactile Times Square."

>"Her debut about a woman who raises an orangutan as a human was widely praised in 1932, but her work has slipped from sight. Is it time for a revival?"