The economy of desire and the curse of its fulfilment
Lazarus808
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Deena Mohamed
From the heart of Cairo, Deena Mohamed's graphic novel explores our longing for wish fulfilment
"You almost have the feeling you're dealing with two different authors"
Jan Single / Ullsteinbuchverlage
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Philipp Felsch
The philosopher as educator of the Germans: Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas
The sanity of the couch
Jan Single / Ullsteinbuchverlage
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Philipp Felsch
The cosmopolitan and the provincial, the universalist and the particularist - Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas
A popular classic as a subversive masterpiece
Michael Avedon
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett retells Mark Twain's young adult novel Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim - "James" is a tragicomic novel about racism, identity, human abysses and friendship
People must be crazy
Sébastien Van Malleghem / Zsolnay
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Gaea Schoeter
"Trophy", Gaea Schoeter's novel about big game hunting and Africa, is an intelligent and passionate introspection into post-colonial sensitivities and a Western morality that has degenerated into a luxury product
Bookworms of the world , unite!
mindjazz pictures UG
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco - A Library of the World: Davide Ferrario's documentary is a hymn to the universe of books
Trapped in narratives
Yandé Seck's debut novel "White Clouds" masterfully explores the search for identity of two adult sisters with a migrant background without losing sight of the ambivalent, woke German present
Kafka three ways
Majestic / Paramount Pictures Germany
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Franz Kafka (Sabin Tambrea)
Michael Kumpfmüller imagines Franz Kafka's last year of life with Dora Diamant in "The Glory of Life" - the film adaptation is disappointing, but the mini-series "Kafka" by Daniel Kehlmann and David Schalko is inspiring
Bad girls, dark books
Studiocanal
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Jenna Ortega
Jade Halley Bartlett's literary and erotic thriller "Miller's Girl" is a bizarre and always surprising young-adult melange in which the supposedly lame world of books meets furious Tik-Tok teens
In the Shadow of the Inheritance
Julien Salinas
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Iman Humaidan
"Songs for Darkness" - the lives of four Lebanese women in a novel by Iman Humaidan