Subscription 790/year or 190/quarter
Homeliterature

book review – literature

MODERN TIMES is as a commentary at the same time a book review with around 40 books mentioned in each issue (March, June, September, December). We discuss (preferably in an essayistic way) nonfiction Interior political, ecological and philosophical literature, but also literature in our time "big tech".
The newspaper with its rich full format also includes the theme supplement ORIENTERING and / or the documentary film magazine MODERN TIMES REVIEW.
How about drawing one Subscription to DKK 790 / year?

Self-critical humanism for the climate 

Climate policy is not just about where the electrical outlets are located in my home, but also about finding meaning in a self-changing activism – the food I eat, meaningful work, habits and relationships. 
Alexander Carnera -

A Communist Manifesto

Can Karl Marx still show us some ways forward 168 years after the book came out?
Truls Lie -

Star dust and dream

An entirely different side of dangerous Medellin, if you've been watching the Narcos TV series about Pablo Escobar. What can poetry bring to mind in this Latin American metropolis? 
Terje Dragseth -

Riot rather than strike 

The riots are the reaction of our time to capitalism, as it was in the past.
veronicadiesen@gmail.com -

How to live together

Excerpt from a new book based on Roland Barthes: Living together all the time can become claustrophobic. But we can live side by side. 
Eivind Tjønneland -

An artistic masterpiece

War, torture and love form the backdrop to the total collapse of civilization and rationality.
Paal Frisvold -

The timelessness of globalization

Herbjørnsrud has written a very important book on the most important political phenomenon of our time – but a book for the few.
Paal Frisvold -

Being trapped in a story

Two groundbreaking authors show how gender identity can be locked into societies characterized by violence and oppression.
Birgitte Bjørnøy -

The banal emptiness of war 

It is the space of war – all that is beyond the sensational – Christoph Bangert shows us in his new project.
info@ninatoft.no -

Should we have the right to be forgotten?

Digital media has increased the amount of information available about us – and highlights the need for a debate about our right to disappear in oblivion.
Steffen Moestrup -

The ontological earthquake

Freud's bourgeois paradox, the collapse of ideology, and the return of social questions to the ruling class are some of the themes in this essay collection.
Henning Næs -

The world's global banking center

British imperialism does not end. London has become a global banking center with a major emphasis on the world currency euro dollars. Brexit obviously does not change that.
veronicadiesen@gmail.com -

The Witnesses write

A writing course for the elderly offers constant surprises, a fearless clarity and concise, precise wording. Ny Tid reproduces here several texts from some of the most recent witnesses from World War II.
Hanne Ramsdal -

Attempt to be alive 

What happens to the art of a time without permanence, where everyone is left to a floating, infinite space? 
Alexander Carnera -

The ethical value of literature

Literature and art can help us out of anger and frustration and towards a greater understanding, says Martha Nussbaum. 
Kjetil Røed -

Out of the shade

A General Theory of Oblivion highlights Angola's bloody history.
Birgitte Bjørnøy -
1...646566...73Page 65 of 73
Climate policy is not just about where the electrical outlets are located in my home, but also about finding meaning in a self-changing activism – the food I eat, meaningful work, habits and relationships. 




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

© MODERN TIMES & Orientering AS. PO Box 3113 Elisenberg, 0207 Oslo. Chief editor: Truls Lie

Newsletters