April 2024

Help! Malawian literature is drowning and needs to be rescued!

Since the fall of the autocratic president and book lover Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the book industry and literary production in the south-east African country has virtually come to a standstill

Come in. I'll show you my pictures. I painted them myself.

"Comrade Cuckoo" is Anke Feuchtenberger's contribution to the rapidly changing imagery of the Ninth Art

In search of the lost time

India is not all about the current elections and empowered nationalism and Hinduism, it’s also about the untold stories of national migration and a project conserving their memories

In her novel "Vierundsiebzig" (seventy-four), Ronya Othmann comes close to the limit of human suffering. It is an important travel novel on places of crimes against humanity and an impressive journey into the depths of one's own self.

April 2024

Help! Malawian literature is drowning and needs to be rescued!

Come in. I'll show you my pictures. I painted them myself.

Gallant lies 2

In search of the lost time

Language can also be a weapon