Swedish people dance in a traditional ring around the birch leaf clad Midsummer pole at a traditional Midsummer festival. With English so widely spoken and the country home to several global companies ...

Is it Abba? Saunas? Plays by Strindberg? A government initiative to define an official cultural canon has unsettled many in the arts scene. By Imogen West-Knights Reporting from Stockholm What is ...

A government initiative to create a Swedish “cultural canon” concerned many in the country’s cultural world. The final list has sparked debate over the choices. By Alex Marshall What are the 100 ...

Imagine the ambitious but foolhardy endeavour of trying to summarize an entire culture to only 100 works, brands and ideas. Well, that’s exactly what the Swedish government has undertaken and unveiled ...

This past spring, I co-taught a class with a colleague of mine who is a play therapist. The course was called “A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Play.” As part of the course, we traveled to Sweden for ...