Egyptian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on how absurdity and fantasy mirror Egypt’s social and political realities, shifts in the literary landscape, the economics of writing, and the tension between profession and art.
Halldór Laxness spent his life searching for literary and political identity. His novels on colonialism, poverty and nature now read like early voices of the Global South. An interview with his biographer Halldór Guðmundsson.
A dialogue with Mbizo Chirasha and anti-apartheid writer, pro-African poet and activist Shafā’ath-Ahmad Khān on the legacy of protest and the power of writing.
Writer, poet and lecturer Nenden Lilis Aisyah on the development of Indonesian literature, politics, mass killings and massacres, feminism and the modern approach to Islam in Indonesia.
Manès Sperber's magnum opus, his trilogy of novels "Like a Tear in the Ocean", is finally available again. Editor Rudolf Isler explains in an interview why Sperber is still so important today