Screaming smile
The novel Smil shows how images and symbolism seem far stronger than laws and regulations. Unfortunately, the book's own image use is not particularly powerful.
How free is the independent film?
Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe looks at the world's independent film production, at a time marked by greater freedom and new addictions.
Life, death and metafiction
Italian Nanni Moretti is back with her best film since The Space of the Son, with the premier meta film Mia madre having several similarities.
Inner and outer mazes
In Denis Villeneuve's universe, everything boils down to questions about what it is that makes us free – and what is what locks us inside.
Beyond themselves
Several of the Norwegian documentaries at the Bergen International Film Festival combined deeply personal stories with significant social news, and were consequently anything but navel-gazing.
The ethos of the essay – the five legends
Ny Tid brings here the speech given by Carnera at Gyldendal on 1 October at the launch of the last Window, with a theme about the essay.
Photographs extended in time
PHOTOGRAPHY: The most interesting thing about Fiona Tan's exhibition is the question of how the self is expressed through photographic images.
Barthes and the care of the human soul
The French essayist and theorist Roland Barthes would become 100 year by year. A look back at his writings calls for further thinking about interpersonal relationships and coexistence.
An illusion of freedom
Dubai facilitates a comfortable, lethargic lifestyle – at least just comfortable enough to avoid a proliferation of fertile culture.
On the way to a green shift
The 1. October the levy on biodiesel in Norway disappeared. "A step on the road to a green shift," says chairman of the Storting's environmental committee Ola Elvestuen.
Hungry and beauty
What is our insatiable hunger for beauty? Where does it have its roots? And why is silence spreading now?
The state can create a sustainable, green industrial society
The time to flick and repair is over. Global warming is real, and it is time for great government ambitions and visionary investments.
One question of innocence
No one is guilty of the tragedy depicted in the White Sea. But no one is innocent either.
Fury and directionlessness
An anthology of young Danish poetry has received massive attention in Sweden.
Tough priorities need to be made
Choosing is at the same time opting out. But if we do not choose at all – where do we end up?
New poetry wars
Correspondent Letter: About the Arrogance of American Conceptual Poets in Racial Issues.
Free votes at risk
The same week the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to a former freelance writer, the Government proposes new cuts that will make it very difficult to give persecuted writers protection in Norway.
Manhattan's big bald – do we have him now?
Walt Whitman opened up the modern to a whole nation. Attempts to catch him once and for all become vain.
Poet, go into your time
Juliana Spahr has left the viewer's poem voice in favor of activist. But still, she is first and foremost a poet of relationships.
Nature's intrinsic value
In an in-depth settlement with his role models, Arne Johan Vetlesen seeks language for experiences that cannot be grasped with the classical rationality of philosophy. So what does – when nature itself speaks to us?
The Norwegian essay
A somewhat arbitrary – or should we say unnatural – overview of the essayist in our small country.
From aliens to aliens
FILM FESTIVAL IN BERGEN: A hypothetical visit from space, a plausible conspiracy theory about the Chernobyl accident, a personal experiment on the effects of sugar and a lively portrait of two teenage girls from the space crowd are among the documentaries shown at the Bergen International Film Festival.