Goodbye Carmen Karim...
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Manahel Alsahoui
I'm finally free of my pseudonym: A Syrian Writer and Journalist's Story of Surviving and Thriving
Writing while disappearing
Heike Steinweg / Suhrkamp
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Annie Ernaux
Finally in German , "I Remain in Darkness" - and an Annie Ernaux who perhaps wants nothing more and literature that can do everything after all
Shake It Off
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Jenny Ortuoste
A short story from the Philippines
The unique nature of the European Union
Martin Henze
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Ulrich Haltern
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
Rich women, stupid men
librairie mollat, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2015
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
The day I fell in love with a theatre!
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Rosa Yassin Hassan
About the places that shape us and that we shape - narratives on the Syria of yesterday and the Syria of today.
in the deep mud
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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E.E. Cummings 1953
On the morally ambivalent reading of E.E. Cumming's poems, particularly "my sweet old etcetera", a poem about and against war. Or is it?
Movie Star
Anastasia Datta
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Eugene Datta
A coming-of-age story from Kolkata
A dictator is only human...
Éditions Delcourt, Meyer – Costantini, 2024
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Eric Meyer
...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"