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 ?
She "hears them" with her eyes
POEM:Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's poems are surreal, where the imagination can prevail. Beneath the surface – like a frozen lake – is a world of disappointment, sadness, but not resignation.
Hedi's Arab Spring
A Tunisian generational uprising springs from a blood-curdling love story. Can this bring liberation further?
The passing of time
Mia Hansen-Løve's new feature film Tomorrow's Day revolves around how political involvement changes over time, and adds to the series of her films about family dynamics and relationships. Here we give an overview of her films.
Organic grief work
Something in the world has run smoothly – something opaque, animalistic.
Corona night
PROSA POETRY: What are our thoughts, where are we, or any of us, under the danger of epidemics Coronavirus?
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.
Cheerful and generous articles from the old man against the stream
Dag Solstad is hunting for the novel's essence.
Meat with Frøy
Bokessay based on Knut Ødegård's Edda poems, volumes I – III (Cappelen Damm, 2013–2015) and Gerður Guðjónsdóttir's Blóðhófnir (Mál og menning, 2010) The veranda faces ...
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.
Five pictures and one letter
About Camilla Groths Somewhere out there I'm happy (Flame Forlag)
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.
One question of innocence
No one is guilty of the tragedy depicted in the White Sea. But no one is innocent either.
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?
Many faceted meetings in Moss
FESTIVAL: Europe is the theme when the Mill City Literature Festival is organized for the fifth time.
30 – 40 Feet
In the thirties there is no prayer: this is where you will have to meet the little child again – what you lost somewhere along the way.
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.
Essays on literature challenge established notions
Two current, young essayists each settle in their own way with the categories.
Swedish states of mind
Johannes Anyuru's virtuoso novel asks deeply uncomfortable questions about the effects of counter-terrorism.
Menneskesammenspjæringa
Aina Villanger has written a collection of poems that will communicate, in a setting that is intimate and universal at the same time.