Morten Høi Jensen is the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen (Yale University Press). His second book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain, is forthcoming.
Article When Hitchens Was Good Christopher Hitchens was a champion detractor, a terrific hater, and always more fun to read when he was denouncing than when he was praising. By Morten Høi Jensen August 29, 2024 Books Politics Nonfiction
Article Why Are We Still Doing This? Denmark is a historical anomaly: the world’s first socialist monarchy. By Morten Høi Jensen April 25, 2024 Foreign Affairs Politics Culture Europe
Article The Electric Prose of Martin Amis Remembering the comic force and electric prose of the late Martin Amis, a true writer’s writer. By Morten Høi Jensen June 30, 2023 Literature Death and Dying
Article There Will Be Blogs Why preserve for posterity, or at all, what is by definition scarcely meant to endure beyond the moment? By Morten Høi Jensen January 11, 2022 Books Technology LGBTQ issues
Article The Gentle Light That Vanishes and Returns Against the epic forces of history, the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski emphasized little privacies. By Morten Høi Jensen April 10, 2021 Poetry War and Peace Social Justice
Article Without God or Reason Two new collections of Albert Camus’ work reveal the foundations of his future writing. By Morten Høi Jensen January 1, 2021 Nonfiction Philosophy