"What the best novels can do is open up spaces. And she has opened a space in time, and it is absolutely, absolutely incredible. I think it's a fantastic book."--Karl Ove Knausgaard

"In Solvej Balle's new series, the concept of a time loop is more than a gimmick; it's a way of rethinking human existence."--Rhian Sasseen "The Atlantic"

"A steady, careful, and deeply disquieting estrangement of a single day, it is impossible to put down."--Kate Briggs

A symphony of voices, kind, curious, various, energetic and possibly healing... Balle's serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make ancient, impossible problems of time new again. What is astonishing about her novel is the way she makes us see that we have constructed our world so we don't have to think about time's scalding realities.--Joanna Biggs "London Review of Books"

Remarkable... This will leave readers counting down the days to the next installment.-- "Publishers Weekly"

The time-stuck protagonist of Solvej Balle's miraculous septology has been trapped in the same day with no end in sight. On the Calculation of Volume is a literary phenomenon nearly 40 years in the making. It's a speculative masterwork and long-awaited comeback of a now-62-year-old writer."--Cat Zhang "New York Magazine"

"If time has ceased flowing for Tara, for the reader its flow is exhilarating, propelling us through the slender pages of these two compact volumes, each of which ends on a tantalizing cliff-hanger, inciting our desire for more (that the third and fourth installments will not be available in English until November 2025 is, for me, a terrible cruelty!)."--Ania Szremski "4Columns"

"Solvej Balle is a prodigious writer who, miraculously, finds the subtlest, most fascinating differences in repetition. You have never read anything like On the Calculation of Volume. This unforgettable novel is a profound meditation on the lonely, untranslatable ways in which each one of us inhabits time--and the tenuous yet indelible traces we leave in the world. Day after day."--Hernan Diaz

The novel is a brilliant meditation on the collective, on the delights and tedium of living closely with others, on the necessity of some form of organization and the worthwhile frustrations that often ensue... It's a testament to Balle's writing, and to the work of her excellent translators, that a fourth novel set in the same day, in the same mind, has not grown even a bit tired.--Bekah Waalkes "Financial Times"

A speculative novel that, with each new volume, feels ever more intensely about the present. A lively entry in a provocative series, thick with questions about morals and ethics.-- "Kirkus Reviews (Starred)"

This fourth volume (of seven) is a meditation on time that takes place on an endless Nov. 18, giving the time-loop narrative new and stunning proportions.-- "The New York Times"

Balle's novel is philosophical in a robust sense. Its range is ambitious, encompassing all three of the questions that, according to Kant, comprise philosophy's fundamental concerns: What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?--Clare Carlisle "The Yale Review"

On the Calculation of Volume is a practicum in novelty, but whatever philosophical positions underpin Balle's world, I suspect they won't be so easily reducible to one program or another, and that the form of the novel itself is her answer to these deepest and strangest of our questions, her chosen method of doing philosophy.--Jack Rockwell "Words Without Borders"