Painted by Edvard Munch in 1922 after a commission from an idealistic tycoon, the heart-lifting frieze that runs around the lunch room at the Freia chocolate factory in Oslo isn’t normally open to ...

One might assume that the “cyclops” in the title of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first collection of critical essays published in English has something to do with visual art or photography, core subjects of ...

The setting is Norway in the late ’80s. At 19 years of age, Karl Ove’s life is dictated by two fluids: semen and alcohol. He is obsessed with getting the first into the body of a beautiful woman, and ...

SUMMER. By Karl Ove Knausgaard. FSG. 416 pages. $30. In 2009, Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Norwegian writer largely unknown outside his native Scandinavia, embarked on a project that rocketed him to fame.

The author for Hyperallergic’s copies of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s So Much Longing In So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch in Norwegian and English (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Likewise, ...

Although I was put off by the Hitlerian title and massive self-absorption of Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume, 3,600-page confessional novel, My Struggle, accolades from trusted colleagues convinced ...

Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle” is the buzz book of the moment — or more accurately a certain kind of buzz book, for a certain kind of audience. It is also a provocation, sharing ...

In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel A Time for Everything, the narrator says that if we are to understand his character, a sixteenth-century Italian named Antinous, it won’t come from charting the inner ...

The Norwegian literary phenomenon tells Guardian Live event how and why he has put the most intimate details of his life into his autobiographical novels Towards the end of A Man in Love, the second ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." To talk to Karl Ove Knausgaard, I got up at 3:30 in the morning. I hadn’t really slept the night before.

"Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man," goes an old Jesuit motto. If these words sound familiar, it's probably because they've been popularized by the BBC's "Up" series of ...