The sword is from the Pre-Viking Age.… Read more »

The thrilling saga continues re: the Nobel Prize. If you’ve been following the dramatic on-goings of the Swedish Academy and the litany of sexual harassment allegations, mishandled leaks and overall… Read more »

Man, oh man. In recent weeks, we’ve been following the ongoing drama at the Swedish Academy, which awards each year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s been a mess. Well, now things have gotten much… Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about some #MeToo drama that has sent the Nobel committee into a full-on Blåsväder (a Swedish cousin to our own “shit storm”). Well, the Blåsväder has yet… Read more »

It’s not often that a king’s sadness is covered by the Associated Press, and a headline such as “Swedish king saddened by trouble in Nobel literature body” portends strange times… Read more »

New developments have emerged in the mystery of the five missing Hong Kong booksellers, as two of the men in question have apparently appeared in mainland China: Gui Minhai, owner of Mighty… Read more »

What’s the difference between a 16-year old in Sweden and a 16-year old in Britain? In Britain, the government is planning to axe the study of gender equality and patriarchy… Read more »

In the latest development of a decades-long story of grand literary theft, a repatriation ceremony for two books recently took place at an unusual venue; the U.S. Attorney’s office in… Read more »

Amazon is hoping to extend its business into Scandinavia, but has hit a roadblock in Sweden, per a report from The Local, which reports news from various European countries in… Read more »