March 2024

Bookworms of the world , unite!

Umberto Eco - A Library of the World: Davide Ferrario's documentary is a hymn to the universe of books

Trapped in narratives

Yandé Seck's debut novel "White Clouds" masterfully explores the search for identity of two adult sisters with a migrant background without losing sight of the ambivalent, woke German present

Michael Kumpfmüller imagines Franz Kafka's last year of life with Dora Diamant in "The Glory of Life" - the film adaptation is disappointing, but the mini-series "Kafka" by Daniel Kehlmann and David Schalko is inspiring

Bad girls, dark books

Jade Halley Bartlett's literary and erotic thriller "Miller's Girl" is a bizarre and always surprising young-adult melange in which the supposedly lame world of books meets furious Tik-Tok teens

Songs for Times of Darkness

"Songs for Times of Darkness" - the lives of four Lebanese women in a novel by Iman Humaidan

The blessing of migration

Hein de Haas' "How Migration Really works - A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics" is a book that is as clever as it is frustrating, and should be compulsory reading in every school

Literature.Review as a movie

Part 1: Past, politics & present

Gallant lies 1

On Ronya Othmann

Ping on top of Pong

Issues, Aesthetics, Politics: A close look on politicization and escapism in Indonesian Literature

Reading children's classics postcolonially

Or why literature (mediation) and reading have always been political