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Unwanted misfortune

Tara Sosrowardoyo

Tash Aw

Tash Aw's memoir "Strangers on a Pier" is an illuminating and touching document about the search for family and national identity in times of migration

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Love and unexpected moves in a time of grief

Kalpesh Lathigra

„Intermezzo“ - a musical interlude, an unexpected chess move, and now Sally Rooney’s latest novel, in which she tackles the universal themes of grief, loss and love

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Eighteenth message: A cigarette between two deaths

Private

Blind blood in the corridor - a war diary from Gaza

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In "What you can get", Clemens Böckmann gives a harrowing insight into the life of a sex worker who spied for the Stasi and into the "real existing socialism" of the German Democratic Republic, which was dissolved in 1989

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Yesterday's dream

Private

News from nowhere

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Niwala

Privat

A story from Pakistan and Switzerland

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I am another in Palestine

Mathilde Pannet

What does it mean to be a Palestinian in the diaspora, an outsider who can only contemplate his homeland from his hereditary exile through the characters in his novels? A homeland of fading words, images and stories

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What I don't seek, I find

Daniel Hengst / Poetenladen

Tom Schulz

With his three cycles in "Die Erde hebt uns auf", Tom Schulz has produced an outstanding volume of poetry that is as beautifully sad as it is formally rigorous, political in identity and combative

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One hand in search of another

Private

A poem from Lebanon

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Must everything change for things to remain as they are?

Hans-Guenther Kaufmann / C.H.Beck

Armin Nassehi

In "Kritik der großen Geste" (Critique of the grand gesture), sociology professor Armin Nassehi calls for politicians to refrain from making huge demands in times of major crises and opt instead for a policy of small steps

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Insanity is round

Sophia Evans / Guardian / eyevine / laif

Joseph O'Neill

Joseph O'Neill's boldly composed and carefully researched football novel "Godwin" plays with the question of whether a biography with any degree of integrity can still unfold in this crazy world

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Haiti and its diaspora in Mayday mode

Revista Etnica

Erica Joseph

On the power of social media, election campaigns, the USA as a failed immigration country and migrant paradoxes

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Of encounters and misunderstandings

José David Schulz

María Ignacia Schulz

Frankfurt Book Fair Reviews

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Does the European Union have a future?

Rafaela Pröll / Suhrkamp

Robert Menasse

In "The World of Tomorrow: A Sovereign Democratic Europe - and its Enemies", Robert Menasse asks whether nationalism is becoming the gravedigger of the EU and whether European elites are failing

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What we keep quiet in the "truck"

James Alquintor

Jhak Valcourt

The current extremely brutal deportations of Haitians from the Dominican Republic are not just a journey into hell.

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Mirror

private

A story from Morocco

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„Islam is not anti-feminist!“

Axel Timo Purr

Writer, poet and lecturer Nenden Lilis Aisyah on the development of Indonesian literature, politics, mass killings and massacres, feminism and the modern approach to Islam in Indonesia.

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On sentences and lizards

Christoph Rütimann

The moods of different languages and the corresponding moods of the speakers

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Being able to love nothing and no one

Privat

Gianfranco Calligarich

In "Like a Wild God", Gianfranco Calligarich transforms a forgotten, cruel piece of the puzzle that is Italian colonial history into a postmodern, refracted, sparkling and contemporary mosaic.

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Afro-poetic confessions of an educated black woman

José Arturo Ballester Panelli

Mayra Santos-Febres

What else does a black female writer have to do in this world? What does she do with the rage that consumes her when she is again marginalized or used as "the attraction" for show? And what does she do with her throbbing shame?

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Have a future

Paula Winkler

Literature behind bars: As part of the ILB, Ronya Othmann reads in the open prison in Spandau, Berlin.

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A long overdue novel about "white skins" and "red skins"

Elena Seibert/Hanser

"Wandering Stars", the new novel by Tommy Orange, is a gripping Native American family epic of volcanic force

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We are all in the jungle

David Herzog

Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

In "The Raven Who Loved Me", Sudanese Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin transforms a migrant's deadly journey into a comedy - a courageous and well-executed feat

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