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Axel Timo Purr
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Starfield Library, Seoul
Why Literatur.Review needs support now – and why independent literary criticism is not a luxury.
Only the most populous country in the world?
ORF America
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Dhruva Jaishankar
With "Vishwa Shastra - India and the World", Dhruva Jaishankar has written an introduction to Indian history for the youth of his country. It focuses on India's relations with the world and the future of the subcontinent
African theatre versus Western classics
Private
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Hamed Ben Mohamed Mahdawi
Between resistance and creative appropriation: how African artists are transforming the Western theatrical canon to create cultural self-determination and new forms of expression
Hard land, blind heart
Suhrkamp
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Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar's "Adama" is a stark portrait of Israeli history, exploring violence, hope and self-destruction. An unusual thriller that demonstrates how no ideal remains unscathed when people have to live with it.
The scene of horror and tenderness
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Halim Youssef
Halim Youssef's "Liebe im Schatten der dunklen Flaggen" is a poetic masterpiece about surviving in the darkness on the Iraqi-Syrian border
A future that slips through the fingers
Lane + Co
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
In "Theft", Abdulrazak Gurnah traces the fine cracks that run through friendship, love and origins when a society is set in motion. A quiet novel that unfolds its greatest power precisely in its omissions
Black
Larissa Villacorta
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Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso
A poem about the historical burden inscribed on black bodies.
Domination and resistance
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Maja Zwick
Language, power and migration in an unfinished decolonisation – the case of Western Sahara
Remembering borders
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In his new book "Border Documents", Mexican photographer Arturo Soto unfolds a quiet, poetic topography of memory - far from clichés, close to the everyday reality of the border