The Weight of the Small: Why Short Books Deserve More Respect

There’s a quiet, stubborn bias in literary culture that I’ve never quite made peace with: the assumption that a book’s importance is proportional to its page count. A slim volume, slipped from an envelope, often meets a flicker of disappointment—a sense that it can’t possibly hold a world. Yet in the Nordic fiction I spend … Continue reading "The Weight of the Small: Why Short Books Deserve More…