Best-known for "Out of Africa" and "Babettes Feast", Karen Blixen -- often writing under the name Isak Dinesen -- was an iconic figure in Scandinavia and the Anglo-American world, celebrated as a literary star and a pundit in newspapers, radio, and lecture halls. Many of her topical pieces would later be published as essays, and in this book Marianne Stecher offers the first critical examination of them, exploring Blixens sagacious reflections on some of the twentieth centurys greatest challenges. Stecher uncovers a "creative dialectic" in Blixens work, an interplay of complementary...