On the present state of Moroccan literature
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Mohamed Khalfouf
On canon formation, linguistic diversity and literature beyond the centre
"Hitler was a leftist"
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
Against "colonial amnesia"
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
Bound to be Re-Read?
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”
Not a lyrical medicine cabinet, more like a colourful plate
olyviaoyster
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Hannes Wesendonk
Hannes Wesendonk's poems reveal a recurring interplay between banality, seriousness and nonsense
"Even if you look for a hundred years, you won't find me anymore…"
Wikimedia Commons
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Layeq Sherali
Two poems from Tajikistan
In the world and beyond...
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Ghizlan Touati
Prose of silence in repetition
Hiroshima in three spellings
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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
"Finding yourself without losing yourself"
Fartein Rudfjord
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Halldór Guðmundsson
Halldór Laxness spent his life searching for literary and political identity. His novels on colonialism, poverty and nature now read like early voices of the Global South. An interview with his biographer Halldór Guðmundsson.
Literature Needs Space. We Keep It Open.
Axel Timo Purr
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Starfield Library, Seoul
Why Literatur.Review needs support now – and why independent literary criticism is not a luxury.
Only the most populous country in the world?
ORF America
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Dhruva Jaishankar
With "Vishwa Shastra - India and the World", Dhruva Jaishankar has written an introduction to Indian history for the youth of his country. It focuses on India's relations with the world and the future of the subcontinent
African theatre versus Western classics
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Hamed Ben Mohamed Mahdawi
Between resistance and creative appropriation: how African artists are transforming the Western theatrical canon to create cultural self-determination and new forms of expression
Hard land, blind heart
Suhrkamp
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Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar's "Adama" is a stark portrait of Israeli history, exploring violence, hope and self-destruction. An unusual thriller that demonstrates how no ideal remains unscathed when people have to live with it.
The scene of horror and tenderness
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Halim Youssef
Halim Youssef's "Liebe im Schatten der dunklen Flaggen" is a poetic masterpiece about surviving in the darkness on the Iraqi-Syrian border
A future that slips through the fingers
Lane + Co
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
In "Theft", Abdulrazak Gurnah traces the fine cracks that run through friendship, love and origins when a society is set in motion. A quiet novel that unfolds its greatest power precisely in its omissions
Black
Larissa Villacorta
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Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso
A poem about the historical burden inscribed on black bodies.
Domination and resistance
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Maja Zwick
Language, power and migration in an unfinished decolonisation – the case of Western Sahara
Remembering borders
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In his new book "Border Documents", Mexican photographer Arturo Soto unfolds a quiet, poetic topography of memory - far from clichés, close to the everyday reality of the border
Understanding China (and ourselves) better
F. Mantovani
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Romain Graziani
In "Les Lois et les Nombres - Essai sur les ressorts de la culture politique chinoise", Romain Graziani explains where the roots of Chinese state thinking lie, what they mean and how they still shape our present day
The Theatre of Resistance and South Africa's Unfinished Story
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Shafā’ath-Ahmad Khān
A dialogue with Mbizo Chirasha and anti-apartheid writer, pro-African poet and activist Shafā’ath-Ahmad Khān on the legacy of protest and the power of writing.
At the very bottom
Hu Anyan / Suhrkamp
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Hu Anyan
In his autobiography "I deliver parcels in Beijing", Hu Anyan offers a Kafkaesque vision of the precarious world of the Chinese platform economy
The myth and compassion
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro @ 2025 San Diego Comic-Con International
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein adaptation is more than just a remake: it is a liturgical reading of Mary Shelley's myth - a poetic affirmation of the power of storytelling, the vulnerability of life and the humanity of the monster