July 2025

After reading Tajimara

There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around.

Open sea

Luna Sicat Cleto's poems are the first works of Filipino literature to be translated directly from Tagalog into German - a pioneering cultural achievement by Swiss writer and translator Annette Hug

The glass is half full

The West has passed its zenith - a new world is emerging. In his new book "The Once and Future World Order", political scientist Amitav Acharya explains why we shouldn't be afraid of the upheaval

Between trauma and dream: China's literary present

Fantasy, science fiction and poetry play an important role in China as advertising media for state nationalism and social media companies. But boys' love novels are seen as a threat to family policy and are prosecuted...

Between ancestral memory and the digital future

When literature becomes a digital trench. A conversation with Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

As if I never existed... As if I were still here

A collection of poems about loss, hope, and an ever-fluid reality

"Without ship or land"

With "Habitus", Swiss journalist and musician Waseem Hussain skilfully catapults himself into the higher echelons of literary writing, tackling a topic as old as humanity itself

The devil's project

"Nordstream: How Germany is paying for Putin's war" reveals how former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is the main, though far from the only, architect of the biggest and most consequential corruption scandal since World War II

News flash

A story from Saudi Arabia