October 2024

Of encounters and misunderstandings

Frankfurt Book Fair Reviews

Does the European Union have a future?

In "The World of Tomorrow: A Sovereign Democratic Europe - and its Enemies", Robert Menasse asks whether nationalism is becoming the gravedigger of the EU and whether European elites are failing

What we keep quiet in the "truck"

The current extremely brutal deportations of Haitians from the Dominican Republic are not just a journey into hell.

„Islam is not anti-feminist!“

Writer, poet and lecturer Nenden Lilis Aisyah on the development of Indonesian literature, politics, mass killings and massacres, feminism and the modern approach to Islam in Indonesia.

On sentences and lizards

The moods of different languages and the corresponding moods of the speakers

Being able to love nothing and no one

In "Like a Wild God", Gianfranco Calligarich transforms a forgotten, cruel piece of the puzzle that is Italian colonial history into a postmodern, refracted, sparkling and contemporary mosaic.

Afro-poetic confessions of an educated black woman

What else does a black female writer have to do in this world? What does she do with the rage that consumes her when she is again marginalized or used as "the attraction" for show? And what does she do with her throbbing shame?

Have a future

Literature behind bars: As part of the ILB, Ronya Othmann reads in the open prison in Spandau, Berlin.

A long overdue novel about "white skins" and "red skins"

"Wandering Stars", the new novel by Tommy Orange, is a gripping Native American family epic of volcanic force