Author Archives: andyjamison

One of the real pleasures of living in Malmö has been my weekly – and sometimes more – visits to the restaurant, Davidshall, which is just down the street from our apartment and where a good beer and a good meal and a few laughs were always available, and just the right way to relaxContinue reading “Now or never”

Some years back Thomas Piketty, a French economist, published a book, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, which explained and documented the rise of global inequality. Unlike most academic books, it managed to reach a large audience and helped to change the way that economics was perceived in the wider world. Now he and his colleaguesContinue reading “Enough is enough”

Pope Leo has released his first encyclical – about artificial intelligence – and let us hope that it might have some real influence in the real world. It is something that used to be common practice among governments and “think tanks” and universities, as well as churches and many other institutions both formal and informal,Continue reading “The new Babel’s Tower”

They make a lovely pair, the lilies of the valley and the wild strawberries and when they bloom together it’s hard not to count your blessings and think that better times are on the way, which brings to mind another Eva Cassidy song.

It’s too early for the barley in Sting’s song but the rape fields are at their golden best this time of year in southern Sweden. Here’s one right near our country house. And yesterday I walked through a meadow with another shade of gold at Tjörnedala in Baskemölla.

The British newspaper The Guardian, which has become my main source of information these days as most other newspapers have succumbed to the bad taste and bad vibes that characterize our times, has asked a number of writers and critics to choose what they consider to be the ten best novels published in English and,Continue reading “Come and get ’em”

A young woman came into the shop yesterday and asked if I had any books about Joe Hill and I said I did and showed them to her – a biography and a novel – and we started talking and listening to records – I had Finn Zetterholm’s Joe Hill record which she had neverContinue reading “Remembering Phil Ochs”

Eileen Laurie will be in the shop tomorrow night with a display of her artwork – linocuts and risoprints using plant dyes, as well as pen and ink paintings and watercolours – that will be on sale at Andy’s Corner. So do come by and take a look!

We’re back in business today and looking forward to a little extra springtime activity this week. We’ll be open till 9 tomorrow along with many of the other shops and galleries in the neighborhood, and on Saturday we’ll be welcoming the new folk trio, Trä 2 1 for their first public concert. We usually playContinue reading “A busy weekend”

It was supposed to be an exhibition about Matisse and, of course, the master’s early efforts were fun to see and compare to the works of some of his contemporaries. But for me it was the few paintings by the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine or Fatima Haddad, a woman I had never heard of, andContinue reading “Baya steals the show”