The pen that makes thrones tremble
Étienne Carjat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Victor Hugo
How Victor Hugo, through both his words and stance, exposed the tyranny of Napoleon III - and why a pen can be stronger than power, fear and empires
“The best version of us is WE”
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Mthulisi Ndlovu
In "Ubuntu – The Raw Truth Unravelled", Mthulisi Ndlovu frames Ubuntu as a universal, ethical counterforce to modern fragmentation – melding poetic urgency with political, spiritual, and communal critique.
The master of water
ElKashef
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Ahmad Aboukhnegar
Ahmad Aboukhnegar, a little-known Egyptian writer of magical realism
Russian poems on the war against Ukraine
Editions Points
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Examen de conscience – Poésie russe en temps de guerre
Russia's war against Ukraine has now lasted over four years, longer than the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. There is no end in sight. 16 Russian poets question their conscience.
When the war is over, I’ll make you a bigger bed
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Duna Ghali
A short story from Iraq
A life devoted to art
Telegramme Verlag
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Dana Grigorcea & Perikles Monioudis
They are among the most distinguished, productive and charming writers in the German-speaking world - and they are a couple: Dana Grigorcea and Perikles Monioudis
Orders in the "jungle"
Georg Gatsas
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Dorothee Elmiger
Colonialism, the Anthropocene and the place of literature: A reading between text and context of Dorothee Elmiger's "Die Holländerinnen"
Novelty as a gateway to fiction
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Bruno Elías Maduro
Between myth and market: the seduction of the new as a mental illusion and engine of capitalism, versus the rawness of reality and its necessary tension with fiction
Missed Opportunity
Guido Werner
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Jörg Baberowski
Many people are concerned that democracy is in a deep crisis. What can be done about it remains unclear. The German historian Jörg Baberowski explores this question in "Am Volk vorbei - Zur Krise der liberalen Demokratie".