My short essay on why Simone de #Beauvoir's 1954 novel The Mandarins is more relevant than ever has been published online - in Slovenian! sociolosko-drustvo.si/med-vrsticami/

My short essay on why Simone de #Beauvoir's 1954 novel The Mandarins is more relevant than ever has been published online - in Slovenian! sociolosko-drustvo.si/med-vrsticami/

My friend and colleague Sarah Beckwith's Duke University stunning, moving, thoughtful reflections on how she was raped at knifepoint in London forty years ago is now out in The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Det er i dag! Lansering av min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Ane Farsethås' samtalebiografi med meg. I samtale med Wenche Mühleisen. På Gyldendal klokken 18 i dag! facebook.com/events/1208596…

I morgen onsdag på Litteraturhuset i Oslo! Ane Farsethås samtaler med Vigdis Hjorth og meg. Om filosofi og det hverdagslige. Og min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Anes samtalebiografi om meg. litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangement…

Kjempefin anmeldelse av På jakt etter Norge av Martha Norheim! i Morgenbladet . jeg ble så glad! morgenbladet.no/boker/overrask…

Åste Dokka laget podkast med meg om 1950-tallet Hør den her: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tor…

Det ble en livlig prat med Vegard Larsen på NRKs #Drivkraft ! radio.nrk.no/podkast/drivkr…

Sometimes I miss Norway..,

The great #VigdisHjorth and I talked with Ane Farsethås about life, literature and philosophy at Litteraturhuset in Oslo on June 11. Here's the podcast! shows.acast.com/litteraturhuse…

Jeg skriver om nærlesningens begrensinger i mitt svar til Ulrik Eriksen i Morgenbladet i dag. Er ikke veldig glad i dette bildet... morgenbladet.no/ideer/toril-mo…

Dag Solstad’s Maoism-influenced novels remain untranslated—leaving a major gap in how we see one of Norway’s greatest writers. I write in Los Angeles Review of Books on why these strange, funny, vital works matter, and why it’s past time they reached English readers. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-mi…

I wrote an essay in Norwegian for Morgenbladet on Hannah Arendt. Encouraging interested readers to begin with books by Lyndsey Stonebridge, Samantha Rose Hill, Richard Bernstein. The more Arendt I read, the more I admire her capacity to grasp the significance of contemporary events

Does anyone know if Fred #Jameson ever met #Sartre? Did he ever write about meeting or not meeting him? (FRJ published his first book, on Sartre, in 1961. Sartre died in 1980.)

Robert Redford died this week. He marked my youth! All the tributes are so well deserved. But why do so many of them fail to mention his great political movie, The Candidate (1972), where he plays an idealist running for Senate, who almost unwittingly ends up selling out.

This story is about polar bears who have taken over an abandoned research station in the Russian Arctic. Amazing pictures! No need to be able to read Norwegian! vg.no/nyheter/i/73bo…

Call for papers - #jameson Memorial Conference April 2026

Idrees Kahloon Idrees Kahloon informative essay in The Atlantic about the new translation of Raspail's horrific vision of monster immigrant hordes invading France, The Camp of the Saints, quotes my colleague Corina Stan, and links to her brilliant chapter on the book's significance.