Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish American writer and the author, most recently, of The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (2025). A longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently the European liaison for Liberties: A Journal of Culture and Politics.
Morten Høi Jensen
Articles
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?
The Art of the Critic: On James Wood
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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