April 2026

When the war is over, I’ll make you a bigger bed

A short story from Iraq

A life devoted to art

They are among the most distinguished, productive and charming writers in the German-speaking world - and they are a couple: Dana Grigorcea and Perikles Monioudis

Orders in the "jungle"

Colonialism, the Anthropocene and the place of literature: A reading between text and context of Dorothee Elmiger's "Die Holländerinnen"

Novelty as a gateway to fiction

Between myth and market: the seduction of the new as a mental illusion and engine of capitalism, versus the rawness of reality and its necessary tension with fiction

Many people are concerned that democracy is in a deep crisis. What can be done about it remains unclear. The German historian Jörg Baberowski explores this question in "Am Volk vorbei - Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie".

"Culture isn’t cosmetic"

Mbizo Chirasha in conversation with civil society practitioner, human rights activist and co-executive director of PartnersGlobal Roselie Vasquez-Yetter

Do we lack imagination?

Will the power struggle between the superpowers lead to World War III? Even unintentionally? The book "The Coming Storm" by historian Odd Arne Westad attempts to prevent the unimaginable.

The possibility of a future

Iryn Tushabe's novel "Everything Is Fine Here" is a fascinating coming-of-age novel about queer self-empowerment, religious fanaticism and the political violence of everyday life in Uganda today