Brother in Ice is not a narrative of events that follow each other sequentially. Rather, we are presented with information concerning two topics: the early history of arctic explor
Arnold Pessers is a photographer in his early thirties, who has arrived in Japan five years before this short novel begins, to take a series of photos for a tourist guidebook. He h
Gwendolen Howard (1894–1973), known as Len, was a musician who gave up her career in mid-life to study birds in the Sussex countryside. She wrote two books, which were bestseller
Thirteen-year-old Maresi is a novice in a matriarchal religious community on a remote island, where she has taken refuge after a famine. Many of her fellow novices have fled from b
Engaging with the Nordic tradition of domesticity, from August Strindberg to Ingmar Bergman, Story of a Marriage is, in fact, the story of a middle-class Norwegian marriage. Gullik
Set in an Icelandic fishing village, Guđmundur Andri Thorsson’s charming novella, And the Wind Sees All, deftly translated by Bjørg Arnadottir and Andrew Cauthery, contains a d
The leaves are turning, evenings are darkling, the clocks yearn to go back and cool air is forecast from the north. And our Riveting Reviews this month have a chilly, or at least a
