blog I'm a Norwegian and I listen to music. Here's why a Norwegian song is storming the global charts. The secrets behind 'Bybane Girl', the viral sensation that has taken the world by storm.
Vol1No4 The Girl on the Bergen to Sogndal Ferry As the rest of us enter the 2020s, it's dispiriting to note that one of Norway's foremost crime writers remains firmly wedged in the 1920s.
Vol1No4 At the Kulturhus Ole Martin Kvalheim's latest exhibition is a staggering meditation on mortality through photographs of discarded umbrellas.
blog Three Of The Best Books Of The Decade, recommended by BRB Editors Are these the best Norwegian books of the 2010s? Our editors think so... and very few people outside Oslo would disagree.
Vol1No4 Nursery Crimes Nursery teachers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your shame.
Vol1No3 Classifieds, Vol 1 No. 3 Feeling flirty in Fitjar? Moist in Moster? Let our Classifieds team lead your salmon to a commercially-approved spawning ground.
Vol1No4 Caught In The Act There is something endlessly comforting about the so-called Genre Fictions: the hard-boiled detective novel, the police procedural, the medical drama.
Vol1No3 The Crude Truth About Oil (revised ed.) Thea-Sophie van Schlanbusch-Eissenhover exposes the unsavoury truths concealed by "big olive oil".
Vol1No3 Featured A Temporary State of Bergen Smoke and ash. Storm and fire. Ever since the first economists headed north-east in search of suits and pointless arguments, the city of Bergen has long loomed above us like a pimple on the forehead.
blog Inaugural Knut Ove Knutson Prize For Crime awarded to Bømlo local The Knut Ove Knutson Prize for Crime announced its inaugural winners at a start-studded event at Henrik's bar in downtown Bergen.
Vol1No3 May the Norse be with you! Finally a great Norwegian SciFi novel, to join the ranks of the many exceptionally good Norwegian SciFi novels.
Vol1No2 Mamma Miasmic A sorely-needed investigation into the "disconcerting conspiracy to favour all things Swedish over all things Norwegian."
Vol1No3 Girl on the No. 2 Bus to Birkelundstoppen A compelling book, by the author of previous compelling titles.
classifieds Classifieds, Vol 1 No. 2 Horny in Huglo? Waiting in Goddo? Contact our Classifieds team to find the 95 RON to your Volvo 240
blog Radical poet overthrows patriarchy by using exclusively lower-case letters A radical poet has undermined the patriarchy and neoliberal capitalism by eliminating all upper-case letters from their work.
Vol1No2 The Girl on the Fløibane Norway has pioneered and perfected the art of slow TV, and it's natural enough that one of the country's foremost authors, Knut Ove Knutson, should turn his meticulously-detailed attention to perfecting the previously-neglected art of 'slow crime.'
Vol1No2 Allergic To Fish A pathetic human goes on a journey of self-discovery and discovers she is a pathetic human.
blog Critics count number of authors on Man Booker longlist Book reviewers across the UK have discovered that there are 13 authors on this year's Man Booker Prize longlist.
Vol1No1 The Crude Truth About Oil The dirty hippies of Oslo think "The Crude Truth About Oil" is that it is bad. In fact, it is not bad.
classifieds Classifieds, Vol 1 No. 1 Lonely in Langevåg? Sleepless in Svortland? Contact our Classifieds team to find the crab to your teine.
Vol1No1 The Girl on the Bybane Come faster, wingèd chariot – the sweet release of death cannot come soon enough for our reviewer.