June 2025

Jhak Valcourt's collection of poems "Cuando callan los ríos" (When the rivers fall silent) not only highlights the identity crisis of the lyric self, but is an important contribution to the genre of new social poetry

Lyndal Roper's work "Summer of Fire and Blood", published to mark the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants' War, not only convincingly recounts the past, but also touches on questions that are equally relevant today

The fifth instalment in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series - the prequel "Sunrise on the Reaping" - may contain some repetition, but it is still a valuable contribution to New Adult literature in politically challenging times

In her novel "Grandmothers", Melara Mvogdobo distills two life stories from different cultures into a literary coup d'état. It would be hard to write about female empowerment more tenderly or brutally