In "Ubuntu – The Raw Truth Unravelled", Mthulisi Ndlovu frames Ubuntu as a universal, ethical counterforce to modern fragmentation – melding poetic urgency with political, spiritual, and communal critique.

Russia's war against Ukraine has now lasted over four years, longer than the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. There is no end in sight. 16 Russian poets question their conscience.

Colonialism, the Anthropocene and the place of literature: A reading between text and context of Dorothee Elmiger's "Die Holländerinnen"

Many people are concerned that democracy is in a deep crisis. What can be done about it remains unclear. The German historian Jörg Baberowski explores this question in "Am Volk vorbei - Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie".