Sue Prideaux

Roger Scruton’s swan song: salvation through Parsifal

9 May 2020 9:00 am

This is Roger Scruton’s final book. Parsifal was Wagner’s final opera. Both works are intended to be taken as Last…

Into the woods: for the Oslo exhibition, Knausgaard chose to fill a whole section with Munch’s paintings of trees. ‘Pine Forest’ (1891–92)

The Struggle and The Scream: is Karl Ove Knausgaard Munch’s doppelgänger?

20 April 2019 9:00 am

Norway doesn’t have a world-class philosopher (Kierkegaard was Danish). Karl Ove Knausgaard declared at the end of his previous book…

Hiding in Moominland: the conflicted life of Tove Jansson

13 December 2014 9:00 am

Tove Jansson’s father was a sculptor specialising in war memorials to the heroes of the White Guard of the Finnish…