Reptile Memoirs
Jerry Holt reviews Silje Ulstein’s book, Reptile Memoirs, a Norwegian literary thriller set on the fjords of Ålesund and Kristiansund in Norway.
11 Jun, 2022
Jerry Holt reviews Silje Ulstein’s book, Reptile Memoirs, a Norwegian literary thriller set on the fjords of Ålesund and Kristiansund in Norway.
20 May, 2022
Christine Foster Meloni interviews Washington, D.C., Sons of Norway members about their reactions to Arthur Herman’s book, The Viking Heart.
19 May, 2022
Victoria Hofmo interviews Adolf Hansen about his recent memoir, A Boy in Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Norwegian Colony in the 1940s and ’50s.
18 May, 2022
Victoria Hofmo reviews Brooklyn Girl: Growing Up Norwegian in New York City by Jan Carol Simonsen, a coming of age story in the 1950s and 1960s.
15 Apr, 2022
Jerry Holt reports that the 2007 Norwegian crime novel, Bitre Blomster (Bitter Flowers), by Gunnar Staalesen, will be released in English in May.
22 Mar, 2022
Victoria Hofmo reviews the second children’s book about “Mimi’s sagas” of monsters, gods, and Vikings by Norwegian author Anne-Lise Bay Braathen.
18 Mar, 2022
For the travel issue, Jerry Holt brings us a new episode of Crime Corner featuring Irish author John Banville.
6 Mar, 2022
Terje Birkedal reviews the book Women and Weapons in the Viking World: Amazons of the North by archeologist Leszek Gardela, published in 2021.
24 Feb, 2022
Jerry Holt writes about a book and two movies that cover the Dyatlov Pass incident, in which nine hikers died in Russia’s Ural Mountains in 1959.
22 Feb, 2022
Don Pugnetti Jr., retired Washington journalist, releases his book A Coat Dyed Black, a novel about the Norwegian resistance during World War II.
24 Jun, 2022
Norway-Russia security in a changing world
24 Jun, 2022
Start the summer with simple, succulent salmon
23 Jun, 2022
“Tis the season — for a delicious rhubarb dessert!
23 Jun, 2022
24 Jun, 2022
Stavanger Oilers drill Storhamar in finals
25 May, 2022
A visit to a Norwegian garden manor farm
26 May, 2022
Roasted Beet Salad nourishes and delights
26 May, 2022