Reviews
[For Looming] Review of “Vaade” by Jan Kaus
My review of "Vaade" and another essay collection by Kaus "Kolm punkti" was published in Looming's 100th-anniversary issue in April 2023.
Spring 2023 | Read & Reviewed
Best of what I've been reading, from books to essays to stories, spring 2023 edition. Annie Ernaux, Frank Kermode, Jan Kaus et al.
[For Sirp] Review of “La place” by Annie Ernaux
Review of the first Annie Ernaux book, "La place", translated to Estonian. The Published in Sirp, 03.03.2023.
January 2023 | Read & Reviewed
Best of what I've been reading, from books to essays to stories, January 2023 edition. Jon Fosse, Alejandro Zambra et al.
2022 Favorite Books & Other Writing
Best books of 2022 – what I read, wrote, and reviewed this year.
[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.
[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.
[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.
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 […]