[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.
April 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, April 2022 edition.
[For Looming] Short Story “Roosiaed”
The short story "Roosiaed" by Karola Karlson was published in Looming 5/2022.
[For Sirp] Review of Weather by Jenny Offill
Jenny Offill's novel Weather asks how to survive on the pre-climate-apocalypse planet and proposes apathetic self-irony as one potent analgesic.
All Things Nice Hide in Shadows – Review of Checkout 19
A friend recently told me that she was participating in a translation contest. Jokingly, I suggested that the organizers should have picked a chapter from Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett as the source text. My friend smiled, slightly disconcerted. That’s right. That was the book. It isn’t only the tirelessly poetic and ornamental prose – […]
2021 Favorites: Books, Essays & Other Writing
Best of 2021: recommendations on books, essays, and other literary works.
[For Müürileht] Existentialism and Ecstasy: Mushrooming as a Recreational Act
On John Cage’s mycophilia, the ecstasy of losing oneself in forest-wandering, and the Post-Soviet heritage of mushrooming. in Estonian. Published in the September 2021 issue of Estonian hedonist-intellectual magazine Müürileht.
Co-creation x Puänt
Collaboration project with Puänt bookstore in Tallinn. Find some of my fave books in the store.
