From The New York Times (Karl Ove Knausgaard on "What’s the last great book you read?"):
From The New York Times (Karl Ove Knausgaard on "Who are your favorite Norwegian writers?"):
From Harper's:
From The Economist:
From Harper's (Rebecca Solnit on the definition of the present):
“Pond,” by Claire-Louise Bennett.
From The New York Times (Karl Ove Knausgaard on "Who are your favorite Norwegian writers?"):
Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, “The Birds” — it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.
From Harper's:
A.I. researchers predicted that the last human job to be replaced by machines will be that of A.I. researcher.
From The Economist:
[Affairs] can sometimes even fortify relationships, so long as they spur a couple to discuss what has long been left unsaid.
From Harper's (Rebecca Solnit on the definition of the present):
The present is by common definition the instant between the not yet and the already, a moment as narrow and treacherous as a tightrope. But you might instead define it as all that is remembered by those who are currently alive.
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