[For Sirp] Review of “Margarita” by Anni Kytömäki
Review of Finlandia Prize 2021 winner Anni Kytömäki’s novel “Margarita.” Published in Sirp, 14.10.2022.
September 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, September 2022 edition.
[For Looming] Review of “Eesti novell 2022”
Review of the "best-of" collection of Estonian short stories "Eesti novell 2022," published in literary magazine Looming, 8/2022.
August 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, August 2022 edition.
[For Sirp] Review of The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing
Review of Doris Lessing's The Sweetest Dream ("Kõige ilusam unelm" in Estonian), reviewed for the Estonian cultural weekly Sirp.
July 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, July 2022 edition.
June 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, June 2022 edition.
Le jeune homme by Annie Ernaux – Memory-images Outside of Time
In his 1896 book Matter and Memory, the French philosopher Henri Bergson defines two types of memory. The first, habit memory, is of automatic and utilitarian nature – it repeats the already-learned past actions to achieve present means. Recollective memory, however, is of spiritual nature. It’s the memory par excellence that helps us orient in […]
[For Sirp] Review of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea was published in 1978 and received The Booker Prize the same year. As it was recently republished in Estonia in Varrak’s Kuldsari (Golden Series), I reread and reviewed it for Sirp.
May 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, May 2022 edition.