RIIHIMAKI, Finland (Reuters) - This autumn, pupils in the Finnish town of Riihimaki headed back to school with backpacks full of books after a decade of state-backed promotion of laptops and other ...

There’s nothing like getting lost in a good book, but one reader in Finland seems to have taken that to an extreme. Staff at a public library in Helsinki were rather surprised when a copy of Arthur ...

Here in the United States, we view winter as a drudgery to withstand. In Finland and other Nordic countries, winter is relished and enjoyed, with lots of sledding, coffee and trips to the sauna. This ...

FinnFest USA will celebrate Finland’s Centennial Sept. 22-24 in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Orchestra and other Nordic cultural institutions will be participating. For a flavor of Finland try a Finnish ...

Just a hundred yards off the shores of Helsinki, beyond its embassies and marina, its cafes and upscale homes, lies Harakka Island. There is no bridge to Harakka; it must be reached by boat — or by ...

Finland, thus far relatively absent from the international Nordic mystery boom typified by Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and, more recently, the thrillers of Norwegian writer Jo ...

THE ADVENTURER (377 pp.) — Mika Waltari—Putnam ($3.50). The standard formula for making a historical novel sell merrily nowadays is: violence plus sex equals success. Finnish Novelist Mika Waltari has ...