Why the combination of mysticism, ontology and radical truthfulness of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi continues to have an impact today – as a challenge for individual freedom, language and lived conviction

Between illusion and knowledge, science's claim to truth is increasingly fading; instead, intuition, error and doubt mark what we think we know

How Victor Hugo, through both his words and stance, exposed the tyranny of Napoleon III - and why a pen can be stronger than power, fear and empires

Between myth and market: the seduction of the new as a mental illusion and engine of capitalism, versus the rawness of reality and its necessary tension with fiction

From Siddhartha's river to the roar of the Steppenwolf: Hermann Hesse illuminates our inner abysses and invites the reader to break free from external scripts and create their own truth

On the morally ambivalent reading of E.E. Cumming's poems, particularly "my sweet old etcetera", a poem about and against war. Or is it?

On Urs Engler - legend of German-language literature, poetry in particular -and his collection of poems "nicht nichts (not nothing)" (poems 1984-2024)

Fabian Lenthe's poetry collection "Streichhölzer" (Matches) is a fresh take on established and much-prized contemporary poetry, and well worth reading