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I'm a Norwegian and I listen to music. Here's why a Norwegian song is storming the global charts.

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.

The Girl on the Bergen to Sogndal Ferry

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.

At the Kulturhus

At the Kulturhus

Ole Martin Kvalheim's latest exhibition is a staggering meditation on mortality through photographs of discarded umbrellas.

Three Of The Best Books Of The Decade, recommended by BRB Editors

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.

Nursery Crimes

Nursery teachers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your shame.

Classifieds, Vol 1 No. 3

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.

Caught In The Act

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.

Letters, Vol 1 No. 3

Letters, Vol 1 No. 3

Yet more correspondence from our dedicated readers.

The Crude Truth About Oil (revised ed.)

The Crude Truth About Oil (revised ed.)

Thea-Sophie van Schlanbusch-Eissenhover exposes the unsavoury truths concealed by "big olive oil".

A Temporary State of Bergen

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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.

Inaugural Knut Ove Knutson Prize For Crime awarded to Bømlo local

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.

May the Norse be with you!

May the Norse be with you!

Finally a great Norwegian SciFi novel, to join the ranks of the many exceptionally good Norwegian SciFi novels.

Mamma Miasmic

A sorely-needed investigation into the "disconcerting conspiracy to favour all things Swedish over all things Norwegian."

Two Poems

New poetry from s.v. svanetjøn and the Bømlo Barnas Fiskeklubb

Letters, Vol 1 No. 2

Letters, Vol 1 No. 2

Further correspondence from our dedicated readers.

Girl on the No. 2 Bus to Birkelundstoppen

Girl on the No. 2 Bus to Birkelundstoppen

A compelling book, by the author of previous compelling titles.

Classifieds, Vol 1 No. 2

Classifieds, Vol 1 No. 2

Horny in Huglo? Waiting in Goddo? Contact our Classifieds team to find the 95 RON to your Volvo 240

Radical poet overthrows patriarchy by using exclusively lower-case letters

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.

The Girl on the Fløibane

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.'

Allergic To Fish

Allergic To Fish

A pathetic human goes on a journey of self-discovery and discovers she is a pathetic human.

Two Poems

New poetry by Hans Bjerkeskog and s.v. svanetjøn

Critics count number of authors on Man Booker longlist

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.

The Crude Truth About Oil

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, Vol 1 No. 1

Classifieds, Vol 1 No. 1

Lonely in Langevåg? Sleepless in Svortland? Contact our Classifieds team to find the crab to your teine.

The Girl on the Bybane

The Girl on the Bybane

Come faster, wingèd chariot – the sweet release of death cannot come soon enough for our reviewer.