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Criticism as a role-playing game?

LITERATURE: The informal contexts where one could try and fail without having to stand up for every careless word have shrunk. In Eirik Vassenden's 229-page book about the critic, there are no fewer than 317 question marks. We also ask: Do literary scholars necessarily have any advantage when it comes to human knowledge, life experience or social understanding?

The showdown with woke

WOKE: The crime community is pushing people over to the right, which is growing because people feel alienated by woke and identity politics. Moreover, the left has become more interested in monitoring each other than forming a common front against the right. Is solidarity and compassion for the suffering of others a limited resource?

A good life without more and more of everything

GREEN GROWTH: MODERN TIMES has chosen to print an extract from the book Grønt manifesto by our regular critic. "Quality of life rather than forced growth": Three small but powerful words, which provide a key to changing the direction of social development, where our eternal pursuit of 'the most possible' is rather adjusted to the appreciation of 'adequate'.

A voluntary forced relationship

PSYCHOLOGY: Is narcissism a social demand on the individual – that we must become more than what we are?

Palestine, Portugal, pluralism

MANAGER: When is more independent identity important, and not?

The identity-political winds of the time

IDENTITY: Hørernes Hærgen is a flame script against the identity-political winds of the time. It is a fiery battle script against contemporary moral currents.

Hatred is an integral part of American popular culture

USA: American religious scientist puts his finger on the convulsive attempts of the liberalist society to cover up the injustices of the past.

The value of man in the unemployed society

LIFE: How can we manage to live a meaningful life in a world without work, where everything is automated and education no longer leads to work?

What happened to the children's right to privacy?

"SHARE THINGS" : Parents share a snapshot of photos and information about their children in social media without considering the long-term consequences, and without the children's consent.

An accurate portrayal of the EU crisis

EUROPE: Is it now about developing a kind of European solidarity, or have we become space polygamous?

About belonging

IDENTITY: Finally comes the book about what it's like to grow up between two cultures, told by Norwegian third-culture children.

Honest and surprising meeting with Kuwaiti women

ITS OWN ROOM: In Women of Kuwait, we get an insight into the lives of various Kuwaiti women through their bedrooms. Apparently there is little that separates them and other women in the world.

Historical patience

MISCELLANEOUS: Manuel Castells paints a picture of today's democratic decline that is as recognizable as it is bleak.

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?

A third-generation refugee returns home

Despite all the conflicting feelings about the traces of Nazi Germany, American-Jewish Deborah Feldman feels for the first time at home.

Squash, gender identity, life and death

Girl Unbound is a complex documentary about gender, sports, the Taliban, war and death threats.