# Vigdis Hjorth

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11: White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

February’s Book: White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky  Other books:  Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley  Wild West Village by Lola Kirke (Lola’s music here)  The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry  If Only by Vigdis Hjorth The Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke (“Go to the Limi…

Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling

We get stuck into some new fiction, starting with Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, a meditation on a future shaped by climate disaster and memory. We’re joined by Australian authors Madeleine Gray and Gretchen Shirm to take a look at Miranda Darling’s Fireweather, a poetic story of breakdown and resi…

Episode 13: Best of 2025

Restricting the content of best-of lists to things produced or released during a single year is, in many ways, fairly arbitrary. Books, movies, or TV shows don’t cease to be relevant as soon as the calendar changes. So we got together to talk about some of the things we particularly enjoyed in 2025…

A Dog's Spirit Jumps into a Boy - Sara Levine and The Hitch

This week on episode #157, I speak with one of my favorite authors, the delightful Sara Levine, author of The Hitch, out tomorrow. I talk about some of my New Year’s resolutions, the amazing new skill I taught my dog and winter break travel plans gone wrong. We also get a guest author recommendatio…

Beyond Survival: The Revival of the Feminine Subject in Feminine Writing

Deconstructing maternal narratives and the search for the feminine 'I.' "When did you become his?" With this haunting question from Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead?, I begin an archaeological excavation into the structures that have long buried the feminine "I." This episode is a journey beneath the…

Vigdis Hjorth's "Repetition"

Kate Wolf speaks to Vigdis Hjorth about her latest novel, Repetition. In the book, the narrator, a novelist in her 60s, returns with an almost trancelike intensity to an episode from her youth in which she had her first sexual experience. Leading up to her encounter with the young man she loses her…

Vigdis Hjorth's Family Secrets

The wildly popular Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth returns to a dark past. By Honor Jones From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠April 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insi…

Julide reads Vigdis Hjorth

Name: Julide Reading: Is Mother Dead, Vigdis Hjorth Why did you want to read this? I believe everything in life begins with and through a mother. I chose to read Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth because this book shows the importance of the mother. In order for patriarchal societies to function, m…

Vigdis Hjorth & Catherine Taylor: Repetition

Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth has been a shop favourite ever since we discovered Long Live the Post Horn, a powerful tale about loneliness and the struggle between capitalism and humanity told through the microcosm of the Norwegian postal service. Hjorth is in conversation with Catherine Taylor t…

131 | Your body is a scam with Penguin Literary Prize winner Mary Colussi

Mary Colussi says her debut novel Touch Grass, winner of the 2025 Penguin Literary Prize, is a 'Noah's ark of her weird interests.' Penguin Literary Prize judge Jack Harkin puts it a little differently: 'part warning, part screwball comedy - and a riot of brilliant, incisive writing about social me…