On sentences and lizards
Christoph Rütimann
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Zsuzsanna Gahse
The moods of different languages and the corresponding moods of the speakers
Being able to love nothing and no one
Privat
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Gianfranco Calligarich
In "Like a Wild God", Gianfranco Calligarich transforms a forgotten, cruel piece of the puzzle that is Italian colonial history into a postmodern, refracted, sparkling and contemporary mosaic.
Afro-poetic confessions of an educated black woman
José Arturo Ballester Panelli
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Mayra Santos-Febres
What else does a black female writer have to do in this world? What does she do with the rage that consumes her when she is again marginalized or used as "the attraction" for show? And what does she do with her throbbing shame?
Have a future
Paula Winkler
Literature behind bars: As part of the ILB, Ronya Othmann reads in the open prison in Spandau, Berlin.
A long overdue novel about "white skins" and "red skins"
Elena Seibert/Hanser
"Wandering Stars", the new novel by Tommy Orange, is a gripping Native American family epic of volcanic force
We are all in the jungle
David Herzog
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Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
In "The Raven Who Loved Me", Sudanese Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin transforms a migrant's deadly journey into a comedy - a courageous and well-executed feat
Franz Kafka meets Agatha Christie
Gene Glover / Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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Daniel Kehlmann
In "About Leo Perutz", Daniel Kehlmann enthuses about this forgotten writer and shows why his novels are still worth reading decades after their publication
Visual and perceptual spaces
Ute Schendel
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Urs Engeler
On Urs Engler - legend of German-language literature, poetry in particular -and his collection of poems "nicht nichts (not nothing)" (poems 1984-2024)
The hacker
Javier Romero
A feminist, accustomed to insult as a device, tells us what a hacker taught her about machismo.
Inside the mind of Theresa Nages
Judith Stehlik / dtv
Barbara Zeman's "Betelgeuse" is an original work of linguistic art and an elixir for the heart, mind and all the senses