I am another in Palestine
Mathilde Pannet
What does it mean to be a Palestinian in the diaspora, an outsider who can only contemplate his homeland from his hereditary exile through the characters in his novels? A homeland of fading words, images and stories
What I don't seek, I find
Daniel Hengst / Poetenladen
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Tom Schulz
With his three cycles in "Die Erde hebt uns auf" (The earth lifts us up), Tom Schulz has produced an outstanding volume of poetry that is as beautifully sad as it is formally rigorous, political in identity and combative
Must everything change for things to remain as they are?
Hans-Guenther Kaufmann / C.H.Beck
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Armin Nassehi
In "Kritik der großen Geste" (Critique of the grand gesture), sociology professor Armin Nassehi calls for politicians to refrain from making huge demands in times of major crises and opt instead for a policy of small steps
Insanity is round
Sophia Evans / Guardian / eyevine / laif
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Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill's boldly composed and carefully researched football novel "Godwin" plays with the question of whether a biography with any degree of integrity can still unfold in this crazy world
Haiti and its diaspora in Mayday mode
Revista Etnica
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Erica Joseph
On the power of social media, election campaigns, the USA as a failed immigration country and migrant paradoxes
Of encounters and misunderstandings
José David Schulz
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María Ignacia Schulz
Frankfurt Book Fair Reviews
Does the European Union have a future?
Rafaela Pröll / Suhrkamp
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Robert Menasse
In "The World of Tomorrow: A Sovereign Democratic Europe - and its Enemies", Robert Menasse asks whether nationalism is becoming the gravedigger of the EU and whether European elites are failing
What we keep quiet in the "truck"
Lorena Espinoza
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Jhak Valcourt
The current extremely brutal deportations of Haitians from the Dominican Republic are not just a journey into hell.