Shake It Off
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Jenny Ortuoste
A short story from the Philippines
The unique nature of the European Union
Martin Henze
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Ulrich Haltern
Human DNA isn't the only double helix; there are also the EU's interlocking legal systems. Ulrich Haltern gets to the bottom of this in "Entangled States". He provides important insights in challenging times
Rich women, stupid men
Manny Jefferson
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Activism is rarely good for literature: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's emancipation novel "Dream Count" about four women in times of coronavirus is as redundant as it is annoying
The day I fell in love with a theatre!
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Rosa Yassin Hassan
About the places that shape us and that we shape - narratives on the Syria of yesterday and the Syria of today.
in the deep mud
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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E.E. Cummings 1953
On the morally ambivalent reading of E.E. Cumming's poems, particularly "my sweet old etcetera", a poem about and against war. Or is it?
Movie Star
Anastasia Datta
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Eugene Datta
A coming-of-age story from Kolkata
A dictator is only human...
Éditions Delcourt, Meyer – Costantini, 2024
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Eric Meyer
...and that is probably the greatest insult to Xi Jinping. Eric Meyer (text) and Gianluca Costantini (illustrator) tell the story of Xi Jinping's life in their graphic novel "Xi Jinping, the Emperor of Silence"
A cat in front of the silence room
Patrick Schelle
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Mamoun Eltlib
Even before the 2019 revolution and the current civil war, the Sudanese were fighting against their ruling elite: a literary reportage
Driving through the cold of a moonlit night
Arman Febrian
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Felix Nesi
Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu" is a literary firework display that places an otherwise barely mentioned region of Indonesia at the heart of astonishing events