What intention governs a human rule?
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Bruno Elías Maduro
A critical reflection on the deep origin of human rules: prohibition, culture and social unconscious versus the rationalist fictions of liberalism and contemporary Marxism
Undercover among German Nazis
Xander Heinl
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Angelique Geray
During the covid pandemic, journalist Angelique Geray wanted to understand the thinking behind covid deniers and why they become conspiracy theorists. To do this, she created a cover identity.
Edo and the ghosts
Martin Steffen / Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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Stella Gaitano
In "Edo's Souls", Stella Gaitano condenses family history, civil war and the female experience into a novel of poetic force and analytical clarity, impressive also in its language and structure
Between word and truth
Nasimi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Imadeddin Nesimi
Why the combination of mysticism, ontology and radical truthfulness of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi continues to have an impact today – as a challenge for individual freedom, language and lived conviction
Beuys don't cry
Avant Verlag
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Joseph Beuys
International artist Beuys. Lenz Mosbacher dares to do something. And rightly so.
Radical, honest, incorruptible
Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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George Orwell
Under the heading "As I please", George Orwell published columns in the 1940s that are still worth reading today. They are now available in slightly different editions in German and English.
The Silence of the Prelude in C major
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Radhia Toumi
Five poems from Algeria
My Grandfather Hussein
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Menaf Othman
A short story from Rojava, the autonomous Kurdish region in northeastern Syria
Puzzle
Mikey Cordero
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Ana Castillo Muñoz
Poetry for reconstruction and remembrance: a reading by Ana Castillo Muñoz
The singularity of the absurd
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Bruno Elías Maduro
Between illusion and knowledge, science's claim to truth is increasingly fading; instead, intuition, error and doubt mark what we think we know
Memory as resistance
House of Anansi / Su Chang
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Su Chang
Between political amnesia and diaspora experience, Su Chang shows in her compelling debut novel "The Immortal Woman" how violence is perpetuated in bodies and biographies. Even where freedom is promised
My Homeland in the Caves of Death
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Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi
From Siegfried Kracauer to Abdullah Al-Baradouni: Reading Yemen through poetry, fiction, and cultural analysis as a way of tracing the hidden dynamics of power, illusion, and collapse before they surface as reality
The pen that makes thrones tremble
Étienne Carjat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Victor Hugo
How Victor Hugo, through both his words and stance, exposed the tyranny of Napoleon III - and why a pen can be stronger than power, fear and empires
“The best version of us is WE”
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Mthulisi Ndlovu
In "Ubuntu – The Raw Truth Unravelled", Mthulisi Ndlovu frames Ubuntu as a universal, ethical counterforce to modern fragmentation – melding poetic urgency with political, spiritual, and communal critique.
The master of water
ElKashef
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Ahmad Aboukhnegar
Ahmad Aboukhnegar, a little-known Egyptian writer of magical realism
Russian poems on the war against Ukraine
Editions Points
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Examen de conscience – Poésie russe en temps de guerre
Russia's war against Ukraine has now lasted over four years, longer than the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. There is no end in sight. 16 Russian poets question their conscience.
When the war is over, I’ll make you a bigger bed
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Duna Ghali
A short story from Iraq
A life devoted to art
Telegramme Verlag
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Dana Grigorcea & Perikles Monioudis
They are among the most distinguished, productive and charming writers in the German-speaking world - and they are a couple: Dana Grigorcea and Perikles Monioudis
Orders in the "jungle"
Georg Gatsas
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Dorothee Elmiger
Colonialism, the Anthropocene and the place of literature: A reading between text and context of Dorothee Elmiger's "Die Holländerinnen"
Novelty as a gateway to fiction
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Bruno Elías Maduro
Between myth and market: the seduction of the new as a mental illusion and engine of capitalism, versus the rawness of reality and its necessary tension with fiction