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Fairy-tale Ending
From “Wuthering Heights.” Once upon a time, a newly married couple rode an old train from Myrdal to Flåm. The train passed through mountains and valleys, past waterfalls and vast lakes. Often the climb...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Kay Nielsen, illustration from “The Three Princesses in the Blue Mountain” (“No sooner had he whistled … ”), 1914. All images © Courtesy of TASCHEN If you’ve seen Fantasia, you are, whether you know it...
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After My Struggle: An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard
From the paperback edition of My Struggle, Book 2. Readers in the U.S. await the fifth volume of My Struggle—but in Norway, Karl Ove Knausgaard has moved on. With the money from Struggle’s sales, he’s...
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Louder than Bombs: An Interview with Joachim Trier and Jesse Eisenberg
Isabelle Huppert and Gabriel Byrne in a still from Louder than Bombs. Readers of the Review know that the Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier is one of our favorite young directors. (See Issue 203 for a...
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Knausgaard the Publisher
The Pelikanen team. When Karl Ove Knausgaard joins us in New York this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for the Norwegian-American Literary Festival, he’ll do so not just as the author of My Struggle but...
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Snorri the Seal
What a vain little seal! It’s Banned Books Week, and everyone is rallying around the classics: your Gatsbys, your Catcher in the Ryes, your Mockingbirds and Lady Chatterleys. No one is giving any love...
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Here Comes the Moon
The hopeful dystopia of Pushwagner’s Soft City. From Soft City. Where does art begin? In the case of Soft City, the straightforward answer is this: it began in Fredrikstad, Norway, in 1969, in a sea...
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Now Online: Our Interviews with Dag Solstad, Jay McInerney
The interviews from our Summer issue are now online in their entirety, freely available for subscribers and nonsubscribers alike. In the Art of Fiction No. 231, Jay McInerney discusses the...
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Here Comes the Moon
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! From Soft City. The hopeful dystopia of Pushwagner’s Soft City. Where does art begin? In the...
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Willa Cather, Pioneer
Willa Cather was not a flashy stylist, and though she was ambitious in her work, she did not attach it to a publicity-worthy life like some of her contemporaries, such as Ernest Hemingway and F....
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