A married woman named Ida meets a married man named Arnold at a conference they are both attending. She sleeps with him, and the two part company. However, Ida is smitten. More than smitten. Obsessed.

The Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth’s latest novel to be translated into English, “If Only,” follows a decade-long affair between two married writers. By Brian Dillon Brian Dillon is the author, most ...

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life. Summer Interior by ...

GLASS.KILL.WHAT IF IF ONLY. IMP. SYNOPSIS: A girl made of glass. Gods and murderers. A pack of ghosts. And a secret in a bottle. A kaleidoscope of mythic, haunting and darkly funny stories which ...