February 2025

A boredom worth living for

Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner "Orbital" shows from afar what, up close, we fail to grasp - the fragility of our planet and our solitary lives

One hundred poems, sixty Lebanese poets

"Dusk" brings together fragmented poetic worlds and gives them voice in three languages

A historical crime novel, "No. 10 Doyers Street" (March 2025) tells the story of a woman journalist from India who becomes embroiled in the case of a Chinatown gangster in 1900s New York City. The historical background is startlingly realistic.

Great art! Great art?

A look back at some of the most notable comics from the last year

To my teacher with love. A tribute to María Lugones

In increasingly hostile times, voices that remind us why we fight are vital. Like that of María Lugones, who was mentor to our author, the Caribbean writer and anti-colonial thinker Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso.

When I fell in love with a theater one day!

About the places that shape us and that we shape.

Traumaland is everywhere

Germany, the country whose inhabitants would love to be world champions in everything, holds a sad record: that of the highest number of migrants killed in the European Union. Asal Dardan goes in search of clues in her book "Traumaland"