Reviews

Memoir, travel writing, adoption studies, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, essays, Sweden, South Korea.

Socially aware and experimentally inclined.

Stockholm medical academia provides a neat setting for this sensitive, educated, music-loving female detective.

The compelling strangeness of a world virtually humming with suppressed secrets and on the brink of collapse.

A singular collection of poetry in which the present is conveyed through the presence of the past.

Andersson's book is a call to arms against the sterile, anonymous, uniform and ubiquitous ‘grey boxes’ of Finnish modernism.

Outsiders, creativity, challenging boundaries, and finding one’s identity.

Among beauty bags and wine bottles lingers a refreshing attitude of acceptance and hope.

Janson explodes dangerous myths, traces a complicated history and reveals linguistic connections that together were, and are, misused by nationalists and racists to invent a past that suited their political objectives.

It was with good reason that the publisher decided to send a copy of the novel to the leaders of all the Swedish political parties.

This is a novel that plays with the genre that has brought Swedish writing international attention, with the crime writer as protagonist, perpetrator and potential victim.

Highly conceptual poetry which goes much deeper than mere experimentation.

Tichý carries his prose like a great central European writer of the 20th century.

Svensson creates neologisms and plays with nursery rhymes, children’s stories, pirate lore, and other intertextual references, making her novel intricate and intriguing.

An ambitious exploration of what it means to be human.

‘The problem is the same everywhere: introducing democracy hurts.’

This linked story collection grabs us with its oddity from story one.

These girls hunt with boundless appetite.