Cynical to the point of being unbearable: In Tony Tulathimutte’s multi-award-winning collection of short stories, "Rejection", the outsiders among the millennials raise their (literary) voices

In 'Leila & Khaled', Nyla Matuk tells not only of a return to Palestine, but also of the impossibility of escaping the images shaped by her own Western socialisation

Refineries, a curse, and black gold. Workers, legends, petroleum. Nastaran Makaremi’s novel "Total" revolves around oil. And then becomes part of its next transformation.

Ethnologist Heike Behrend is researching a German provincial prophet who ran a commercial "Garden of Paradise" in the Altmark region in the early 20th century

Today’s financial elite are ultra-rich. The term refers to the ultimate level of wealth, beyond anything that can be tangibly grasped. In “The Haves and Have-Yachts”, Evan Osnos brings us news from another world.