Fallen Angels by Gunnar Staalesen
Jerry Holt offers his review of the recent English tranlation of Norwegian mystery author Gunnar Staalesen’s Fallen Angels.
Category: Books
New book on Danish-Norwegian 18th-19th century slave trade
Denmark and Norway facilitated the transportation of 100,000 enslaved peoples from West Africa to the Carribbean during the slave trading centuries.
Exploring Norwegian roots in the Northwest
Henning K. Sehmsdorf, a retired Scandinavian Studies professor, has published a new book on Norwegian traditions in the Pacific Northwest.
Book Review: Growing Up in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy: The Story of Andrea Marcello Meloni
Courtney Olsen reviews Growing Up in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, a new book by longtime contributor Christine Foster Meloni.
Red River Girl/Jenta ved Red River
St. Olaf Professor Emeritus Odd Lovoll reviews Red River Girl (Jenta ved Red River), a bilingual edition of Orabel Josephine Thortvedt.
A History of the Vikings: Children of Ash and Elm
Terje Birkedal reviews renowned Viking scholar Neil Price’s new book, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings.
Selbu Mittens by Anne Bårdsgård
Beth Kollé reviews the book Selbu Mittens, by Anne Bårdsgård, discussing Selbuvotter, among the most well-known items of Norwegian knitwear.
Karl Ove Knausgaard as art historian
Christine Foster Meloni reviews the new book “So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch” by novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The Viking Way
Terje Birkedal reviews renowned archaeologist Neil Price’s new book, The Viking Way, a heady text but rich with content.
A trio of Vikings and a loveable Valkyrie
Illustrator Adam Auerbach of Brooklyn is an award-winning artist and children’s book author with a penchant for Vikings and valkyries.
