Remembering borders
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In his new book "Border Documents", Mexican photographer Arturo Soto unfolds a quiet, poetic topography of memory - far from clichés, close to the everyday reality of the border
Understanding China (and ourselves) better
F. Mantovani
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Romain Graziani
In "Les Lois et les Nombres - Essai sur les ressorts de la culture politique chinoise", Romain Graziani explains where the roots of Chinese state thinking lie, what they mean and how they still shape our present day
At the very bottom
Hu Anyan / Suhrkamp
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Hu Anyan
In his autobiography "I deliver parcels in Beijing", Hu Anyan offers a Kafkaesque vision of the precarious world of the Chinese platform economy
The myth and compassion
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro @ 2025 San Diego Comic-Con International
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein adaptation is more than just a remake: it is a liturgical reading of Mary Shelley's myth - a poetic affirmation of the power of storytelling, the vulnerability of life and the humanity of the monster
"People are only really dead when nobody thinks about them anymore" *
Reprodukt
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The graphic novel "El abismo del olvido" by Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa is an astonishing educational piece about dealing with mass graves in Spain
How stories begin and the past takes on a new form
Lloyd Smith
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Tan Twan Eng
In his third novel "The House of Doors", Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng skilfully blends fact and fiction, exploring the relationship between life and literature
The blood of the gazelle
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Aya Gamal Mohey Eldeen
A poem from Egypt
Dead time, dead land
Sandy Hau
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Caroline Hau
In her emotionally dense and intelligent novel, Caroline Hau tells of the recurring colonial relationships and symbiotic hierarchies that occur in Philippine society and beyond
The Scramble for Africa - But what happened in the previous century?
Princeton University Press
Richard Reid, a professor of African History, describes in his book "The African Revolution" how Africa was already changing before European takeover.
Moral on Fire
Jürgen Bauer
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Didier Fassin
In 'Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza', Didier Fassin applies the lens of anthropology’s moral turn. He examines not only what was done to Gaza, but also how Western moral allowed it to happen