Morten Høi Jensen is a writer and critic from Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen (Yale University Press, 2017). Photo by Niels Hougaard / Kristeligt Dagblad.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Mirth and Melancholy: The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
A newly translated compendium of Machado de Assis’s short fiction proves him to be an undisputed master of the form....
Darwin on Endless Trial
Morten Høi Jensen weighs two takes on Darwin’s legacy....
Flash and Lumber: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Essays
Morten Høi Jensen is swayed but not blinded by the flash of Elizabeth Hardwick’s inimitable essays....
C. E. Morgan’s Great American Novel
Morten Høi Jensen appreciates “The Sport of Kings,” a great American novel by C. E. Morgan....
“The Only Form in All the Arts”: On Rachel Cusk’s Autobiographical Fiction
Morten Høi Jensen considers the form of “Transit: A Novel” by Rachel Cusk....
Kafka: An End or a Beginning?
Morten Høi Jensen revisits the life and work of Franz Kafka....
The Unbearable Pathos of Thomas Mann
Britta Böhler has dramatized for us an important long weekend in Thomas Mann's life....
The Lightning Before Death: A Tribute to Clive James
Clive James's stature as a literary journalist and cultural critic ought to endure....
Me, Myself, and Hitler
Karl Ove Knausgaard cautiously observed a year after the Utøya massacre that Breivik and Hitler both shared characteristics of the true fanatic....
Avant Charlie: Flemming Rose and The Danish Cartoon Crisis
Flemming Rose’s "The Tyranny of Silence" is a subtly crafted and self-effacing investigation of the Danish Cartoon Crisis and the debates about free speech that surfaced in its wake....
Atheism and Its Discontents
What makes atheism so radically different is its desire to meet the extraordinary truth claims of religion head-on with rival propositions about the world....
The Hilarity of Evil
Morten Høi Jensen on 'The Zone of Interest' by Martin Amis....
Nothing Sublime, Nothing Grandiose
Morten Hoi Jensen on the Contemporary Danish Short Story...
Stefan Zweig and the Long Night’s Dawn
It’s hard to imagine a better book about Stefan Zweig, or one more worthy of so complex and multi-faceted a personage....
A Keeper of Love’s Flame: Regine Olsen and Søren Kierkegaard
After Kierkegaard cast off his fiancée Regine, her presence haunted his work throughout his career. But what was her story?...
That Difficult Death
Freud thought we were all unconsciously convinced of our own immortality....
The Art of the Critic: On James Wood
IN AXEL’S CASTLE, Edmund Wilson bemoaned Ezra Pound’s poetry for being “partially sunk by the cargo ...
Mr. Amis’s Planet
Martin Amis has always been a casualty of his own biography....
Mentors: Siddhartha Deb
While a student of his I often felt the tectonic plates of my own opinions and tightly-held ideas loosen or shift....
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Remembering Philip Roth (1933-2018)
