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Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

Finding Inspiration (and Joy) While Drafting Among the Fjords

David Greig on His Creative Process Aboard a Nordic Cruise

By David Greig | September 15, 2025

How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish

How an Ancient Ice Age Froze the Entire Earth—And Helped Humanity Flourish

Laura Poppick on the Power and Permanence of Nature's Coldest Element

By Laura Poppick | July 22, 2025

Last Outposts: Rediscovering Hope for Humanity on Norway’s Remote Northern Coast

Last Outposts: Rediscovering Hope for Humanity on Norway’s Remote Northern Coast

James Rebanks: “I found myself fascinated by the remotest islands, and a strange tradition that seemed to keep people going out to them.”

By James Rebanks | June 26, 2025

How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

Neil Shubin on Fridtjof Nansen and the Scientific Legacy of 19th-Century Arctic Exploration

By Neil Shubin | February 6, 2025

A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

Colin Dickey Goes All the Way to Svalbard to Read “A Woman in the Polar Night”

By Colin Dickey | August 22, 2024

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

From the Author’s Nobel Lecture in “A Silent Language”

By Jon Fosse | May 13, 2024

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Traversing the Most Dangerous Region of the Coast of Norway (On a Cruise Ship)

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On the Misguided Norwegian Exceptionalism Underlying the Nobel Peace Prize

On the Misguided Norwegian Exceptionalism Underlying the Nobel Peace Prize

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By Unni Turrettini | December 3, 2020

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian<br> Epic to Life

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By Tiina Nunnally | November 12, 2020

Jenny Hval and Alexandra Kleeman Talk Magic Words, Witch Melodies, and Norwegian Black Metal Scene

Jenny Hval and Alexandra Kleeman Talk Magic Words, Witch Melodies, and Norwegian Black Metal Scene

A Conversation with the Author of Girls Against God

By Alexandra Kleeman | October 30, 2020

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

Charlotte Barslund on "A Social Democracy Fraying at the Edges"

By Charlotte Barslund | September 21, 2020

Look inside Oslo's stunning new public library, now open to the public.

Look inside Oslo's stunning new public library, now open to the public.

By Emily Temple | July 6, 2020

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Norwegian Literature (Almost)

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Norwegian Literature (Almost)

A Brief History of the "Guest of Honor" at This Year's Frankfurt Bookfair

By John Freeman | October 15, 2019

Johan Harstad's Summer of Porn and Philosophy

Johan Harstad's Summer of Porn and Philosophy

On the Things You Find in the Trash

By Johan Harstad | October 15, 2019

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