March 2025

The age of pleasure

Childhood memories of the coast and a time of imperceptible pleasure.

Rich women, stupid men

Activism is rarely good for literature: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's emancipation novel "Dream Count" about four women in times of coronavirus is as redundant as it is annoying

The day I fell in love with a theatre!

About the places that shape us and that we shape - narratives on the Syria of yesterday and the Syria of today.

in the deep mud

On the morally ambivalent reading of E.E. Cumming's poems, particularly "my sweet old etcetera", a poem about and against war. Or is it?

...and that is probably the greatest insult to Xi Jinping. Eric Meyer (text) and Gianluca Costantini (illustrator) tell the story of Xi Jinping's life in their graphic novel "Xi Jinping, the Emperor of Silence"

A cat in front of the silence room

Even before the 2019 revolution and the current civil war, the Sudanese were fighting against their ruling elite: a literary reportage

Driving through the cold of a moonlit night

Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu" is a literary firework display that places an otherwise barely mentioned region of Indonesia at the heart of astonishing events

Get out

Muscat seen through a writer's eyes