Human DNA isn't the only double helix; there are also the EU's interlocking legal systems. Ulrich Haltern gets to the bottom of this in "Entangled States". He provides important insights in challenging times

Activism is rarely good for literature: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's emancipation novel "Dream Count" about four women in times of coronavirus is as redundant as it is annoying

...and that is probably the greatest insult to Xi Jinping. Eric Meyer (text) and Gianluca Costantini (illustrator) tell the story of Xi Jinping's life in their graphic novel "Xi Jinping, the Emperor of Silence"

Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu" is a literary firework display that places an otherwise barely mentioned region of Indonesia at the heart of astonishing events

Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner "Orbital" shows from afar what, up close, we fail to grasp - the fragility of our planet and our solitary lives

"Dusk" brings together fragmented poetic worlds and gives them voice in three languages

Germany, the country whose inhabitants would love to be world champions in everything, holds a sad record: that of the highest number of migrants killed in the European Union. Asal Dardan goes in search of clues in her book "Traumaland"

In his impressive debut novel "Soleil à coudre" (A Sun to be Sewn), Jean D'Amérique tells, in powerful language, of precarious circumstances, and of a childhood that finds validation not only through this language

"We Do Not Part", the new novel by the recently awarded Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, tells of transgenerational trauma, a tender female friendship and a reunion with a mother. And a kind of hope

Jörg Schieke's poems in "Silverman schickt mich" (Silverman sends me) captivate with their irresolvable character, but are also a systematic poetic exploration of the legacies of the GDR