My latest column (in Norwegian) about the debate about Eskil Pedersen’s actions at Utøya is now available online. It appeared in print in Dagens Næringsliv on Saturday 22 September.
Op-Ed about Breivik Trial in the New York Times
On August 23, David L. Paletz and I published an Op-Ed essay about the Breivik trial in the online edition of the New York Times, under the title “In Norway, a New Model for Justice.”
On August 24, the British paper The Guardian based the beginning of its editorial about the Breivik case on our essay (the link to our paper is at the end of the first paragraph.)
The French website Rue89 quotes our essay on August 25.
Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd’s My Struggle
Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd’s My Struggle (volume 1) is a great book. It reads beautifully on its own, but it is also the first volume in an extraordinary 6 volume series. I am delighted to see that this great Norwegian novel has been published in the US by Archipelago books.  Click here for Archipelago’s presentation. See also Archipelago’s link to James Wood recent review in The New Yorker. (In Norwegian I wrote an essay on the series after the publication of volume 6.)