Mission, power, Messiah
Francesca Mantovani / Editions Gallimard
Scholastique Mukasonga's "Sister Deborah" is a fascinating literary genealogy about Christian mission, apocalyptic expectations and colonial order
From inner turmoil to freedom
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Abil Hasanov
From Siddhartha's river to the roar of the Steppenwolf: Hermann Hesse illuminates our inner abysses and invites the reader to break free from external scripts and create their own truth
From bestseller to blockbuster
Sony
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Ryan Gosling | Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir's novel "Project Hail Mary" is transformed into a great science fiction film by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who trade literary and scientific precision for emotion and pace
Life as an echo
Studio Q
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
Oyinkan Braithwaite's "Cursed Daughters" tells of curse, memory and self-empowerment - between Lagos, family ghosts and the question of whether origin is destiny or just narrative
Ramadan, then and now
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Sébastien in Kinda Village (2001)
A journey through memory and the city of Aden
Crime fiction and multiculturalism
Studio Heno
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Moritz Föllmer
A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir write crime novels set in Bradford, a former textile city with a large Muslim/British/Asian community. They address migration and protest, and challenge racist and sexist stereotypes.
Apocalypse 2.0
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José Miguel Garcia León
Historical catastrophes beyond the present: intermittent plague, climate crises and geopolitical transformations from Justinian I to the Abbasid Caliphate
“Zimbabwe is my muse”
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Cynthia Marangwanda
Mbizo Chirasha in conversation with Zimbabwean cultural activist, writer and performance poet Cynthia Marangwanda
The West is dead. Long live the West?
Camilla Winter-Moore and Sukant Deepak
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Georgios Varouxakis and Josephine Quinn
The West is booming. Many believe it is a dilapidated house that should finally be torn down. But what does it represent and how did it become what it is today? Two books provide the answers.
Behind the glasses
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Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Two short stories from Saudi Arabia
Fragments of Hope in Failing Light
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Dunya Yousufzai
A memoir on education, interruption, and the remains of a female life in Afghanistan
The mother of the house
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Urun Kuhzod
A story from Tajikistan
Under the silence of gold
private
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Mi Ravao
A short story from Madagascar
Foreigners
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Al Joseph Lumen
Philippine stories from a German retirement home
The Functionary’s Story
Raoni Maddalena
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Leonardo Garzaro
A short story from Brazil
A street through a wall
Private
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Ali Al Hazmi
Five poems from Saudi Arabia
"Life is already difficult enough"
Axel Timo Purr
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Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan
Egyptian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on how absurdity and fantasy mirror Egypt’s social and political realities, shifts in the literary landscape, the economics of writing, and the tension between profession and art.
Where decisions speak softly
Mary Ellen Matthews / Suhrkamp
"Into the Uncut Grass": Trevor Noah and Sabina Hahn tell why sometimes you just have to start running to get home. A fable about friendship, freedom and the gentle weight of decisions
On the present state of Moroccan literature
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Mohamed Khalfouf
On canon formation, linguistic diversity and literature beyond the centre
"Hitler was a leftist"
Maximilian Gödecke
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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
Against "colonial amnesia"
Sonja Maria Schobinger
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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