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Interview

"Life is already difficult enough"

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Mon, 01/26/2026 - 13:00
Interview
Foto Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan
Axel Timo Purr
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Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan
Egyptian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on how absurdity and fantasy mirror Egypt’s social and political realities, shifts in the literary landscape, the economics of writing, and the tension between profession and art.
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Children's book

Where decisions speak softly

Submitted by Fritz Freithoff on Thu, 01/22/2026 - 10:22
Children's book
Trevor Noah
Mary Ellen Matthews / Suhrkamp
"Into the Uncut Grass": Trevor Noah and Sabina Hahn tell why sometimes you just have to start running to get home. A fable about friendship, freedom and the gentle weight of decisions
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Essay

On the present state of Moroccan literature

Submitted by Mohamed Khalfouf on Mon, 01/19/2026 - 12:00
Essay
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Mohamed Khalfouf
On canon formation, linguistic diversity and literature beyond the centre
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Nonfiction

"Hitler was a leftist"

Submitted by Christian Topp on Thu, 01/15/2026 - 12:00
Nonfiction
Foto Volker Weiß
Maximilian Gödecke
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Volker Weiß
In "Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich" (The German Democratic Reich), historian Volker Weiß shows how right-wing politics is made possible today by the rewriting and reinterpreting of history
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Fiction

Against "colonial amnesia"

Submitted by Melanie Rohner on Mon, 01/12/2026 - 12:00
Fiction
Foto Martin R. Dean
Sonja Maria Schobinger
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Martin R. Dean
In his transcontinental family history "Tabak und Schokolade", Martin R. Dean reconstructs Switzerland's colonial entanglements using a wide variety of memory media
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Fiction

Bound to be Re-Read?

Submitted by Lizzy Attree on Thu, 01/08/2026 - 13:12
Fiction
Foto Yambo Ouologuem
KAG1LP2MDIAKITE, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Yambo Ouologuem
‚Bound to Violence‘ by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem was republished as a Penguin Modern Classic, a series of books self-defined as “shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961”
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Poetry

Not a lyrical medicine cabinet, more like a colourful plate

Submitted by Christoph Becker on Mon, 01/05/2026 - 12:00
Poetry
Foto Hannes Wesendonk
olyviaoyster
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Hannes Wesendonk
Hannes Wesendonk's poems reveal a recurring interplay between banality, seriousness and nonsense
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Literature

"Even if you look for a hundred years, you won't find me anymore…"

Submitted by Layeq Sherali on Wed, 12/31/2025 - 12:00
Literature
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Layeq Sherali
Two poems from Tajikistan
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Literature

In the world and beyond...

Submitted by Ghizlan Touati on Sun, 12/28/2025 - 12:00
Literature
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Ghizlan Touati
Prose of silence in repetition
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Children's book

Hiroshima in three spellings

Submitted by Katalin Jäger on Thu, 12/25/2025 - 12:00
Children's book
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Shaw Kuzki
In "Soul Lanterns", Shaw Kuzki shows how memories are passed down through generations and change over time. Her young adult novel combines historical truth, poetic concision and the quiet rituals of a restless city
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