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Replacement
"Replacement," Ulven's only novel, is a miniature symphony, uniting the perspectives of fifteen unrelated characters into what seems a single narrative voice, dramatizing the …
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has …
Replacement
Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the …
Assisted Living
The Marquis de Sade is alive and well and living in Sweden—or perhaps author Nikanor Teratologen is the devil himself, sending the English-speaking world a Scandinavian squib to …
Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am
Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has …
A Philosophy of Evil
Despite the overuse of the word in movies, political speeches, and news reports, “evil” is generally seen as either flagrant rhetoric or else an outdated concept: a medieval …
Brahmadells
"e;Captivating and wild. . . . There is a vast, oceanic narrative power in Joanes Nielsen's Faroese chronicle The Brahmadells."e; -Anders Juhl RasmussenOne of the first …
Am I a Redundant Human Being?
For the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life.
Many Lives of Carbon
In its pure form, carbon appears as the soft graphite of a pencil or as the sparkling diamond in a woman's engagement ring. Underneath the surface, carbon is also the basic …
Dress Code
As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "e;Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months."e; And yet it serves to make us beautiful, …
Philosophy of Freedom
Freedom of speech, religion, choice, will-humans have fought, and continue to fight, for all of these. But what is human freedom really? Taking a broad approach across metaphysics, …