Johan Harstad's imaginative new novel sends three teenagers 238,000 miles into space. It's 2019, the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's giant leap for mankind, and NASA needs money. Taking a cue ...

At 31, Johan Harstad has already amassed some serious Scandinavian street cred. In addition to his two story collections, three zany novels and the underground record label-cum-design firm for which ...

Johan Harstad, trans. from the Norwegian by Tara F. Chace. Little, Brown, $17.99 (358p) ISBN 978-0-316-18288-1 Norwegian author Harstad makes his YA debut with this chilling combination of science ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. The first words the second man on the moon said aren’t quite as famous as “One small step …” but they are ...

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Mattias is 29 years old and at a loose end. He was happy in his obscurity, beautifying the world quietly in his job as gardener and living with the love of his life, Helle, when suddenly everything ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Johan Harstad was just 27 when his book was first published in Norway, although he was already an award ...

Anglophones are all too often a cloth-eared, flannel-tongued lot of monolinguists and many fine works languish in their native tongues, enriching their own culture but failing to reach a wider ...

The corpse was dead & other stories by Andrew Stuttaford On fiction by Johan Harstad, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Caroline Blackwood & Michel Houellebecq.

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. This year’s International Festival of Authors, which takes place between October 19 and 30 in Toronto, ...