Blogs in July 2016

The Royal Physician’s Visit 26th July 2016

It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor, the court physician Struensee....

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The Wandering Pine 18th January 2015

What was it about Hjoggböle, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots – and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing...

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