Not a lyrical medicine cabinet, more like a colourful plate
olyviaoyster
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Hannes Wesendonk
Hannes Wesendonk's poems reveal a recurring interplay between banality, seriousness and nonsense
Hiroshima in three spellings
Private
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Shaw Kuzki
In "Soul Lanterns", Shaw Kuzki shows how memories are passed down through generations and change over time. Her young adult novel combines historical truth, poetic concision and the quiet rituals of a restless city
Only the most populous country in the world?
ORF America
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Dhruva Jaishankar
With "Vishwa Shastra - India and the World", Dhruva Jaishankar has written an introduction to Indian history for the youth of his country. It focuses on India's relations with the world and the future of the subcontinent
Hard land, blind heart
Suhrkamp
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Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar's "Adama" is a stark portrait of Israeli history, exploring violence, hope and self-destruction. An unusual thriller that demonstrates how no ideal remains unscathed when people have to live with it.
The scene of horror and tenderness
Private
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Halim Youssef
Halim Youssef's "Liebe im Schatten der dunklen Flaggen" is a poetic masterpiece about surviving in the darkness on the Iraqi-Syrian border
A future that slips through the fingers
Lane + Co
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
In "Theft", Abdulrazak Gurnah traces the fine cracks that run through friendship, love and origins when a society is set in motion. A quiet novel that unfolds its greatest power precisely in its omissions
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