Superhuman Pippi
The original Pippi Longstocking script was rejected by Bonniers in 1944, but is now published as a separate book.
Touching other realities
Aina Villanger is one of several Norwegian poets recently translated and presented in Poland. How can Norwegian poetry influence and inspire a Polish audience?
Bold text, open work. One poetics
POESI: Heart that stops beating is the narrator's pulse.
In the beginning was the beauty
ESSAY: I'm looking for the beauty of which I still have bodily memories. But where is it now?
Five pictures and one letter
About Camilla Groths Somewhere out there I'm happy (Flame Forlag)
When the end is good, everything is great!
Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams were banished when they got married. Now their history is being used to uncover more abuses on the road to the self-determination of African colonial states.
Many faceted meetings in Moss
FESTIVAL: Europe is the theme when the Mill City Literature Festival is organized for the fifth time.
Swedish states of mind
Johannes Anyuru's virtuoso novel asks deeply uncomfortable questions about the effects of counter-terrorism.
Cheerful and generous articles from the old man against the stream
Dag Solstad is hunting for the novel's essence.
One question of innocence
No one is guilty of the tragedy depicted in the White Sea. But no one is innocent either.
Menneskesammenspjæringa
Aina Villanger has written a collection of poems that will communicate, in a setting that is intimate and universal at the same time.
Organic grief work
Something in the world has run smoothly – something opaque, animalistic.
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.
Gay Kjærleik Songar
Isn't poetry the best when you get lost in the language, when you have to play with the concealed premise of an erratic poet, throw in the wild, and then recognize yourself in something unknown, something foreign, and yes, dangerous and threatening ?
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.
"I live by chance only"
The great beast in German literature, Günter Grass – the fabulous, demanding, debatable and always contentious poet – has died in Lübeck shortly after ...
Essays on literature challenge established notions
Two current, young essayists each settle in their own way with the categories.
Misanthropic meditation
Breathe in, and exhale: Read Dragseth's new long poem aloud. It is a fair, a meditation, a poem that leaves you sleepless and troubled for the future of the globe and of humanity.
Hedi's Arab Spring
A Tunisian generational uprising springs from a blood-curdling love story. Can this bring liberation further?
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.
