Reviews
[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.
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 – […]
March 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, March 2022 edition.
Acne Paper by Thomas Persson
A fashion magazine disguised as the guardian of culture, the Acne Paper magazine invites the reader to an elitist aesthetic feast.
2020 Favorites: Books, Essays & Other Writing
One of the positive side effects of the gloomy and mesmerizing year numbered 2020 was having more time to read. But it wasn’t just due to the Godardesque SMS* sent by the planet that turned literature into a handy medium of escapism. Writing this article has been obstructed by the fact that all the books […]