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 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, ...

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 ...

There is an episode in the Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard’s newest book, So Much Longing in So Little Space—a reflection on the life of his countryman, artist Edvard Munch—that so perfectly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our conversation for this series, though, Knausgaard chose to examine the biblical story of Cain and Abel—a text he admires for ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 "The Morning Star," Karl Ove Knausgaard (ph) spins an ambitious tale that takes place over two days in August. It's told through the eyes of several people, among them a professor, a priest, a ...