Tunnetko Heptameronen?
Miltei jokainen vähänkään vakavampi kirjallisuuden harrastaja tuntee Giovanni Boccaccion eroottisen klassikon Decameronen, jonka hän kynäili noin 1350. Mutta harva on…
Miltei jokainen vähänkään vakavampi kirjallisuuden harrastaja tuntee Giovanni Boccaccion eroottisen klassikon Decameronen, jonka hän kynäili noin 1350. Mutta harva on…
Mineko Iwasaki (b. 1949) was regarded in the 1970s as the most beautiful woman in Japan, and that is not…
Almost every even moderately serious lover of literature knows Giovanni Boccaccio’s erotic classic The Decameron, which he wrote around 1350.…
There is a dog in the picture. Not just any dog, but Panu, a Karelian Bear Dog, who was a…
The following story is told about the Czech writer Franz Kafka. Around 1922, Kafka was walking in a Berlin park…
Over the past week I have taken more than fifty plastic bags of books to the recycling center. Each time…
When Finland’s Olympic medals are listed, one gold medal in literature is often forgotten. Finland won it at the Berlin…
Let the library be a temple of culture. But it is also a shop where the result of the writer’s…
A book is always a message from writer to reader, from one human being to another. It is rather like…
Just as a thought experiment: what might a literary ecosystem look like without publishers and bookstores, or with their role…
Somewhere there may very well be—and I would bet there is—a book that only its author likes. But for that…