September 2024

Visual and perceptual spaces

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

The hacker

A feminist, accustomed to insult as a device, tells us what a hacker taught her about machismo.

Inside the mind of Theresa Nages

Barbara Zeman's "Betelgeuse" is an original work of linguistic art and an elixir for the heart, mind and all the senses

Running away from life, fighting death

Macedonian Vlado Janevski shows in his new novel "Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe" the truth within the truth or the novel within the novel - an amazing endeavour

Back to the Future

Álvaro Enrigue’s „You Dreamed Of Empires“ takes a complex and vivid look on the first step of the Spanish colonisation of what was then Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City

Slavery is not in the world, it is in us

"Worlds of Slavery - A Comparative History" was published in 2021 by Éditions du Seuil in France. It covers the history of slavery from the end of the Bronze Age to the present day. An essential read.

The present as past

"The Peasants" transforms the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władysław Reymont into an artistically exciting but fundamentally disappointing drama of a young 19th century peasant girl's self-empowerment

Vanistendael, Alfonz, Larcenet & McCarthy, Ross, Adlard & Spurrier, Beuriot & Richelle

Important new releases and news in the comic sector

Ethnography and critique of colonialism avant la lettre

As criticism of colonialism and bitter debates on cultural appropriation resurface, it is worth looking back to the 18th century and to Georg Forster, one of the most fascinating thinkers of his time