Luna Sicat Cleto's poems are the first works of Filipino literature to be translated directly from Tagalog into German - a pioneering cultural achievement by Swiss writer and translator Annette Hug
The West has passed its zenith - a new world is emerging. In his new book "The Once and Future World Order", political scientist Amitav Acharya explains why we shouldn't be afraid of the upheaval
Fantasy, science fiction and poetry play an important role in China as advertising media for state nationalism and social media companies. But boys' love novels are seen as a threat to family policy and are prosecuted...
With "Habitus", Swiss journalist and musician Waseem Hussain skilfully catapults himself into the higher echelons of literary writing, tackling a topic as old as humanity itself
"Nordstream: How Germany is paying for Putin's war" reveals how former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is the main, though far from the only, architect of the biggest and most consequential corruption scandal since World War II
Jhak Valcourt's collection of poems "Cuando callan los ríos" (When the rivers fall silent) not only highlights the identity crisis of the lyric self, but is an important contribution to the genre of new social poetry
Lyndal Roper's work "Summer of Fire and Blood", published to mark the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants' War, not only convincingly recounts the past, but also touches on questions that are equally relevant today
The fifth instalment in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series - the prequel "Sunrise on the Reaping" - may contain some repetition, but it is still a valuable contribution to New Adult literature in politically challenging times
In her novel "Grandmothers", Melara Mvogdobo distills two life stories from different cultures into a literary coup d'état. It would be hard to write about female empowerment more tenderly or brutally
A rumour is circulating in some African countries: the French state is organising penis thefts to offset declining fertility. The rumour, spread by Russian propaganda, has become fake news
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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