Reviews
[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.
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.
April 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, April 2022 edition.
[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.
Co-creation x Puänt
Collaboration project with Puänt bookstore in Tallinn. Find some of my fave books in the store.