“Art is free, shameless, irresponsible: the movement is intense, almost feverish; it resembles, it seems to me, a snakeskin full of ants… filled with meddlesome life” (Bergman, The Snakeskin). Travelling to an island in the Swedish archipelago from Stockholm Central Station requires a train and two buses. Or a train, a ferry and a bus.… Continue reading I want to go on like this — Sommaren with Monika by Ingmar Bergman
A house in Northern Massachusetts, with its vast and domineering landscape, is the Prime Mover of Daniel Mason’s ecological fiction North Woods. This yellow home, constructed prior to the American War of Independence, from which the natural world unfolds and transforms the lives of its inhabitants. A puritan couple, a passionate apple farmer and his… Continue reading The Second Coming, again and again and again: A Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason
