This is the time after time
Peter Andreas Hassiepen / Hanser
Colm Tóibín's poetry collection "Vinegar Hill" serves well the reader with a passion for poetry, and reflects man in all his complexity
Risky freedoms
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Dag Johan Haugerud @ Berlinale 2025
With his Oslo trilogy "Love", "Dreams" and "Sex", Dag Johan Haugerud has created a cinematic, literary and sociological marvel that is as intelligent as it is moving
I condemn the night and its hunting dogs
Harold Rivas
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Ronny Ramírez
Explosion of a cry too long stifled - A deep reading of Ronny Ramírez's early poems and the search for the poetic self
Between Eros and Thanatos
Coco Egia / Reprodukt
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Luz
"Zwei weibliche Halbakte" (Two female semi-nudes), Luz's graphic novel, is as moving as it is graphically incisive
I was born a hidden body
Private
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Lamia Makkadam
Excerpts from "The Book of the Body"...
Now here I am, a fool for sure! No wiser than I was before
Francesca Mantovani / Editions Gallimard
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Gilles Kepel
Gilles Kepel, perhaps the most renowned French expert on the Middle East, published an updated edition of his book on the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023 and its aftermath
Prize, power, invisibility
Private
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Ghizlan Touati
A gender-sensitive reading of the Arab Booker Prize
Mechanisms of power
Maurine Tric / Lenos
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Fann Attiki
"Cave 72", Fann Attiki's political satire about life and death in Brazzaville is also a disturbing and universally relevant portrait of a society held hostage by populism and dictatorship.
When wisdom puts the world's stupidity in its place
Fancine Medina / Transit
In her coming-of-age novel "The Age of Umbrage", Jessica Zafra creates a gripping portrait of Philippine society under the Marcos regime that is frighteningly contemporary - and also universal