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Karl Ove Knausgaard

  1. sexcerpt
    The Best Sex Julia May Jonas Has Ever Read“Knausgaard is always looking at the people around him as objects. It feels like someone who’s not fully comfortable writing about sex.”
  2. fall preview 2021
    Knausgaard Debarks for a New Frontier: Genre FictionNorway’s most famous self-exile talks to Torrey Peters about his horror-inspired novel The Morning Star.
  3. fall preview 2021
    40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallIncluding Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen.
  4. lit parade
    Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Struggle Is Over, But the Critical Debate Lives OnThe question undergirding nearly every review of the now-complete series is whether he regrets that his quest for truth upended his entire family.
  5. Jo Nesbø’s 10 Favorite BooksFrom Shakespeare to Knausgaard.
  6. My Chat With Knausgaard (Not Just About Hitler)The Norwegian novelist on European refugees, Hitler, and his own Argentinian dream.
  7. Should White Men Stop Writing? A Q&A With Elisa Gabbert“White liberals should be questioning our own motives, and being careful not to dominate the conversation, and taking criticism seriously.”
  8. books
    The Very Public Saga of Karl Ove Knausgaard Writing About HimselfHis latest Volume 4: Dancing in the Dark is a lesser work than the first two books (though better than the third).
  9. vulture lists
    8 Books You Need to Read This AprilEach month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations, and you should read as many of them as possible.
  10. Best Tocqueville: Knausgaard, BHL, or Fry?All hail Stephen Fry.
  11. profile
    Karl Ove Knausgaard’s 6-Volume, 3,600-Page Book“There is this kind of aura around it that is very strange.”