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"Hitler was a leftist"

Maximilian Gödecke

Volker Weiß

In "Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich" (The German Democratic Reich), historian Volker Weiß shows how right-wing politics is made possible today by the rewriting and reinterpreting of history

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Against "colonial amnesia"

Sonja Maria Schobinger

Martin R. Dean

In his transcontinental family history "Tabak und Schokolade", Martin R. Dean reconstructs Switzerland's colonial entanglements using a wide variety of memory media

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Bound to be Re-Read?

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Yambo Ouologuem

‚Bound to Violence‘ by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem was republished as a Penguin Modern Classic, a series of books self-defined as “shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961”

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Not a lyrical medicine cabinet, more like a colourful plate

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Hannes Wesendonk

Hannes Wesendonk's poems reveal a recurring interplay between banality, seriousness and nonsense

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"Even if you look for a hundred years, you won't find me anymore…"

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Layeq Sherali

Two poems from Tajikistan

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In the world and beyond...

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Ghizlan Touati

Prose of silence in repetition

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In "Soul Lanterns", Shaw Kuzki shows how memories are passed down through generations and change over time. Her young adult novel combines historical truth, poetic concision and the quiet rituals of a restless city

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"Finding yourself without losing yourself"

Fartein Rudfjord

Halldór Guðmundsson

Halldór Laxness spent his life searching for literary and political identity. His novels on colonialism, poverty and nature now read like early voices of the Global South. An interview with his biographer Halldór Guðmundsson.

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Literature Needs Space. We Keep It Open.

Axel Timo Purr

Starfield Library, Seoul

Why Literatur.Review needs support now – and why independent literary criticism is not a luxury.

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Only the most populous country in the world?

ORF America

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

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