Reviews
Curated and edited by Darcy Hurford
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Vinterträdet
Garbo wants her fellow Swedes to be proud of her for making a film that the whole world admires, and then to let her abdicate from Hollywood stardom.
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vit vit
This is a haunting story in which events are viewed in stream-of-consciousness style through the eyes of a grieving child.
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Fallet Thomas Quick – Att skapa en seriemördarare
This is not some lurid tale of a serial killer, but an examination of what happens when complex social structures such as the legal system or healthcare fall prey to enthusiastic or misguided professionals. This book bites back at the therapists, police and lawyers who for some reason viewed this patient – Sture Bergwall, also known as Thomas Quick – as a professional battleground.
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En rasande eld
It makes sense to review these two political thrillers together: both reflect the professional preoccupations of the writers as well as their strongly held and strikingly similar political views, both explore sympathetically the Islamic/Islamist anger that interacts with what is arguably an unlawful Western overreaction, and both are very well informed.
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Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar, I: Kärleken
Shines a light on a shamefully ignored chapter of Sweden’s modern history with immeasurable sorrow and intense anger – but also with warmth and love.
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Arra. Legender från Lavora
Arra has never spoken a word, but has learnt to recognise and sing all the songs of the trees and the river.
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Blixtslukaren
This picture book for three to six year olds is a welcome addition to any child’s bookshelf but to their parents’ coffee table as well.
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Tolv månader i skugga
As we move smoothly and cinematically between locations, we sense that a secondary purpose of the author is to muddy the division between autobiography and fiction. Even our own lives are stories, after all, in which we figure as the heroes. Can anyone know this better than a filmmaker?
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Det enda könet. Varför du är förförd av den ekonomiske mannen och hur det förstör ditt liv och världsekonomin
Thought-provoking non-fiction on how women are left out of the study of economics and human behaviour, and how this affects human understanding of the world economy.
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Medealand och andra pjäser
These plays provide a genuinely compelling narrative experience in their own right.
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Snuten i skymningslandet. Svenska polisberättelser i roman och film 1965–2010
A great source of information and an articulate companion to crime fiction as a literary genre.
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Kunskapen och makten. Om det offentliga beslutfattandets kunskapsförsörjning
Intelligent discussion of democratic political processes.
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Resan till världens farligaste land
Inspired by classic stories and computer adventure games.
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Skuggor
Handberg's novel hauntingly describes that strange, becalmed yet activity-filled bubble we inhabit between the death and funeral of a parent.