May 2024

The world as a global kindergarten

"Only a fool wouldn't buy this book" by Oksana Havryliv is a humorous exploration of name-calling, swearing and cursing, as well as an enlightening journey through different cultures and taboos

All Gomorrahs Are the Same

A Socio-critical overview of trajectories of the ‘South African novel’, 2020 – 2023

"I think that the creative is stronger than the destructive!"

Manès Sperber's magnum opus, his trilogy of novels "Like a Tear in the Ocean", is finally available again. Editor Rudolf Isler explains in an interview why Sperber is still so important today

The Underworld of the First World

From Haiti to the U.S.: In Search of a New Language for Migration and the Encounter with our Demons and Dreams

The Day of the Sun

Hala Kawsarani’s new novel is one of the most intriguing recent publications in the Arabic-speaking world and has been hailed by Arab critics - we present a short excerpt

Journey into the swamp of the soul

In "Realm of Shame. Talking about Sex", Christine Koschmieder explores her own sexuality and recounts the evolution of sexuality in Germany from the 1960s to the present day

Abirached, Sfar, Simpsons, Žeželj & Franquin

News and important new releases in the comic sector

Oh Helpmefurther: The parrot is sending the dog into a frenzy

Leonie Nückell translates the wonderfully wicked children's verses by the great Egyptian poet Ahmad Schauqi as lovingly as she does creatively, and the artist Said Baalbaki paints the accompanying pictures - a rare stroke of luck

The first intellectual of modern times

"Erasmus - Biography of a Freethinker" by Sandra Langereis is a fascinating book about the life and times of the great humanist- and a balm needed just as much in today's world as in the 1500s.