Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: an anthology about the Stieg Larsson trilogy

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I confess I haven't read this anthology, edited by Donna King and Carrie Lee Smith (published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2012), b...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Norwegian Novelist Helene Uri Explores Sami Roots

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Helene Uri’s 2013 novel Rydde ut [Clearing Out] begins twice. First, on a lonely marsh in Finnmark, Norway, with the character Ellin...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Slowly Reading Knausgaard: My Struggle

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It was toward the end of the second volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s opus, My Struggle: A Man in Love, that I noticed something s...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The Art of Recalling: Art Essay in New Issue of Feminist Studies

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The most recent issue of the well-respected and long-lived journal Feminist Studies has just been published and my essay about the arti...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Tove Jansson's Moomins as Dining Companions in Japan

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Japanese cafe seats solo diners with stuffed animals to ward off loneliness As Tove...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Far from perfect: Michael Booth's The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle

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  Maybe, if you’re like me and have spent a far amount of time in Scandinavia, you’re used to stereotypes about the Nordic lands hel...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

The Exhibit “Memories of Lapland” at the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm

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Sami Working with Reindeer, 1943. Emilie Demant Hatt, Nordiska Museet It was about ten years ago that I first saw Emilie Dem...