“Zimbabwe is my muse”
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Cynthia Marangwanda
Mbizo Chirasha in conversation with Zimbabwean cultural activist, writer and performance poet Cynthia Marangwanda
The West is dead. Long live the West?
Camilla Winter-Moore and Sukant Deepak
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Georgios Varouxakis and Josephine Quinn
The West is booming. Many believe it is a dilapidated house that should finally be torn down. But what does it represent and how did it become what it is today? Two books provide the answers.
Behind the glasses
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Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Two short stories from Saudi Arabia
Fragments of Hope in Failing Light
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Dunya Yousufzai
A memoir on education, interruption, and the remains of a female life in Afghanistan
The mother of the house
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Urun Kuhzod
A story from Tajikistan
Under the silence of gold
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Mi Ravao
A short story from Madagascar
Foreigners
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Al Joseph Lumen
Philippine stories from a German retirement home
The Functionary’s Story
Raoni Maddalena
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Leonardo Garzaro
A short story from Brazil
A street through a wall
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Ali Al Hazmi
Five poems from Saudi Arabia
"Life is already difficult enough"
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.
Where decisions speak softly
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
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…"
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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.