During the month of June, the highest grade was awarded only once, and a total of eight works received four pluses. Here follows a compilation of the month’s best cultural experiences.
“Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” by Gabriel Rockhill
PROFESSIONAL BOOK What do post-war left-wing intellectuals really have to do with this? C.I.A and American anticommunism? It answers Gabriel Rockhill on in a stinging showdown with the Frankfurt School and its influence. “It is impossible to get past this book. Everyone on the Swedish left should take a good look at their values and examine where they come from,” writes Kajsa Ekis Ekman.
“Report on the blind”, guest performance at the Royal Opera
PERFORMING ARTS “From here, his conspiratorial confessions clatter, click, ping and curl out of a blue-suited Malkovich in refined interplay with the fascinating and advanced music’s curves and stylistic blends”, writes Cecilia Djurberg.
“Sjónorama” by Sjón
SHORT STORIES “He writes as a sleepwalker but also as a private detective, a madman, a circus director, a bookseller and a grave digger”, writes Sinziana Ravini.
“The Long Scam” by Christian Lindell & Alex Voronov
PROFESSIONAL BOOK “It is written with a liberal fury over how business organizations and civil opinion leaders built up a false narrative about immigration,” writes Rasmus Landström.
“Crack eggs” by Peter Kadhammar
NOVEL “Peter Kadhammar can be read just for the style, both when he is engaged in journalism and when he writes detective stories”, writes Lotta Olsson.
“Children in the Dark” by Gustaf Tronarp
REPORTAGE “The final impression becomes a necessary, if at times overwhelming, diagnosis of a contemporary age where we must learn to hold our children by the hand online – before the shadows inside swallow them whole”, writes Myra Åhbeck Öhrman.
“Caravanseraj” by Arne Johnsson
POETRY “What is it to live? By Arne Johnsson sixteen poetry collections since the debut in 1985, the answer has been: to move with the movements in the world’s cities and countries – let the legs wander, the eyes observe, the hand write”, writes Amelie Björck.
“A wicked man at heart” by Hans Lagerberg
PROFESSIONAL BOOK “With a sure hand, Lagerberg guides the reader through the rise of capitalism, the civilization process’s new view of culture and humanity, and the strife within the Swedish nobility”, writes Åsa Linderborg.
“Anatomy of the heart” by Monica Rosenberg
SHORT STORIES “I become childishly fond of the way Rosenberg makes us stare at his pale, easily recognizable subjects”, writes Rasmus Landström.
