May 2025

This is the time after time

Colm Tóibín's poetry collection "Vinegar Hill" serves well the reader with a passion for poetry, and reflects man in all his complexity

Risky freedoms

With his Oslo trilogy "Love", "Dreams" and "Sex", Dag Johan Haugerud has created a cinematic, literary and sociological marvel that is as intelligent as it is moving

I condemn the night and its hunting dogs

Explosion of a cry too long stifled - A deep reading of Ronny Ramírez's early poems and the search for the poetic self

Between Eros and Thanatos

"Zwei weibliche Halbakte" (Two female semi-nudes), Luz's graphic novel, is as moving as it is graphically incisive

I was born a hidden body

Excerpts from "The Book of the Body"...

Now here I am, a fool for sure! No wiser than I was before

Gilles Kepel, perhaps the most renowned French expert on the Middle East, published an updated edition of his book on the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023 and its aftermath

Prize, power, invisibility

A gender-sensitive reading of the Arab Booker Prize

Mechanisms of power

"Cave 72", Fann Attiki's political satire about life and death in Brazzaville is also a disturbing and universally relevant portrait of a society held hostage by populism and dictatorship.

Pregnancy cravings

A story from Tunisia