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literature

The big backdrop world

Yu Hua Translator Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg: China in ten words

CHINA: Yu Hua shows how today's economy-driven China in 40 years has moved from a peasant society to the most economically powerful country
Alexander Carnera -
literature

The brain is not alone

Siri Hustvedt: A Woman Loooking at Men Looking at Women

: Siri Hustvedt goes to a feminist defense for softer metaphors in science.
bbjornoy@gmail.com -
art

Stein Mehren – cultural radicals and romantic mystics

Eivind Tjønneland: Stone mehren. Here you have my life. Selected essays.

: Stein Mehren is best known for his poems, but he is also in a special position among Norwegian post-war essayists: awake, combative and with a sharp eye on current topics.
Eivind Tjønneland -
literature

Prologue to a policy

: There are three philosophies of power that always end up surprising the status quo.
steinmehren@gmail.com -
literature

With a bang, or with a whimper?

: Competition-based hedonism is well on its way to its demise, says Wolfgang Streeck about capitalism.
Henning Næs -
literature

How to live together

: Excerpt from a new book based on Roland Barthes: Living together all the time can be claustrophobic. But we can live next to each other. 
Eivind Tjønneland -
literature

Being trapped in a story

: Two groundbreaking authors show how gender identity can be locked in a society characterized by violence and oppression.
bbjornoy@gmail.com -
literature

The ontological earthquake

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

The passion for the real

: A tax-financed state and mass comfort based on fossil energy are the leading features of the 20th century, according to Germany's great essayist Peter Sloterdijk. 
Eivind Tjønneland -

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