A deep reading of „Coffin of Silence“ by Badia Kashgari

Scholastique Mukasonga's "Sister Deborah" is a fascinating literary genealogy about Christian mission, apocalyptic expectations and colonial order

Oyinkan Braithwaite's "Cursed Daughters" tells of curse, memory and self-empowerment - between Lagos, family ghosts and the question of whether origin is destiny or just narrative

The West is booming. Many believe it is a dilapidated house that should finally be torn down. But what does it represent and how did it become what it is today? Two books provide the answers.

"Into the Uncut Grass": Trevor Noah and Sabina Hahn tell why sometimes you just have to start running to get home. A fable about friendship, freedom and the gentle weight of decisions

In "Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich" (The German Democratic Reich), historian Volker Weiß shows how right-wing politics is made possible today by the rewriting and reinterpreting of history

In his transcontinental family history "Tabak und Schokolade", Martin R. Dean reconstructs Switzerland's colonial entanglements using a wide variety of memory media

‚Bound to Violence‘ by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem was republished as a Penguin Modern Classic, a series of books self-defined as “shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961”

Hannes Wesendonk's poems reveal a recurring interplay between banality, seriousness and nonsense