It is a beautiful day in late summer; the sky is blue and filled with brightly-coloured hot-air balloons. A man…
Translations
This is the opening of Helsinki Nocturne (“Yhdyntä”), a novella set in 1944, in a wintry, war-time city under attack…
msp. 20 i saw my brother sitting close to me across from his throat and part of his shoulder.…
what can you do, the evening falls over your shoulders with a secret sound, like a moth-eaten rug, you know…
The Danish actress Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) was the highest-paid silent film star in Europe from 1910 to 1920. Known as…
Two decades before Paul Auster published his meta-detective fiction in the stories of The New York Trilogy, leading Swedish author Kerstin…
He said: Philanthropy is simply vanity. Charity is the way ambitious ladies keep score. You with your little gender…
The Skeleton and the Anatomy Book centres on a lost poem by Norway’s celebrated nineteenth-century poet, Henrik Wergeland: a dark…
A Modern Family explores the impact of one couple’s decision to divorce after forty years of marriage, documenting the reactions…
“There’s no such thing as the perfect crime,” I insisted. “Oh really?” he replied, his expression bordering on exasperation. We…
The Stream I glimpse my heart reflected in the water. Am I following the stream, or is it…
PLOT SUMMARY A rumour spreads through Dagestan’s capital city, Makhachkala: the Russian government is building a wall to close off…
