Entertainment & Arts
In ‘Dreamer and Dissenter’ and ‘The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance,’ Ingar Sletten Kolloen and Monika Zagar, respectively, daringly take on the vitriolic writer.
Oct. 25, 2009
Science & Medicine
More than four years after Knut the celebrity polar bear’s death, scientists have finally uncovered the cause of his premature demise.
Aug. 27, 2015
Books
Tackling Knut Hamsun
Berlin’s beloved polar bear Knut died alone in his compound at the age of four on March 19, 2011.
July 17, 2012
VICTORIA by Knut Hamsun, translated from the Norwegian by Oliver Stallbrass (Sun & Moon Press: $10.95; 155 pp.).
Dec. 18, 1994
L.A. Unleashed
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Sept. 28, 2009
March 20, 2011
ENIGMA The Life of Knut Hamsun by Robert Ferguson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $14.95) Ernest Hemingway “tried to write like him”; Henry Miller called him “the Dickens of my generation”; Thomas Mann wrote that “never has the Nobel Prize been awarded to one worthier of it.”
May 15, 1988
Obituaries
Frank Rudy, Nike Air Sole inventor, dies at 84; Albert Scanlon, Manchester United soccer player who survived deadly 1958 plane crash, dies at 74; Knut Magne Haugland, Kon-Tiki crew member, dies at 92
Dec. 28, 2009
March 22, 2011