Literatur.Review - The literary magazine for the whole world

Help! Malawian literature is drowning and needs to be rescued!

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Stanley Onjezani Kenani

Since the fall of the autocratic president and book lover Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the book industry and literary production in the south-east African country has virtually come to a standstill

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Come in. I'll show you my pictures. I painted them myself.

"Comrade Cuckoo" is Anke Feuchtenberger's contribution to the rapidly changing imagery of the Ninth Art

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Gallant lies 2

Dirk Skiba

Alexandru Bulucz

The furniture of Celan's poetry

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In search of the lost time

Steven Borges

Janes Borges

India is not all about the current elections and empowered nationalism and Hinduism, it’s also about the untold stories of national migration and a project conserving their memories

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In her novel "Vierundsiebzig" (seventy-four), Ronya Othmann comes close to the limit of human suffering. It is an important travel novel on places of crimes against humanity and an impressive journey into the depths of one's own self.

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30 Years Later

Zawadi Tumukunde (Bella)

Patrick Nzabonimpa

In April 1994, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began. Looking at intergenerational Rwandan literature, one finds that not only the older generation of writers continues to grapple with this trauma

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The Slow Pace of Change

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Theresa Patrine Ennin

An Exploration of Ghanaian Masculinities from Colonial to Present Times

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Imaginary Lives in Sudan’s War Zone

Judy Laing

Leila Aboulela

Recent Sudanese novels highlight the lives of those caught up in Sudan’s internal wars. Literature reflects the resilience of the Sudanese people and provides a background to the horrific fighting and consequences unfolding

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Breaking the silence, overcoming fear

Samar Gisele EL RAHEB

Iman Humaydan

The Arabic language and creative writing as a means of linguistic emancipation and social liberation

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Leonard’s City

Arianna Tortora

Jonathan Garfinkel

Encounters with Leonard Cohen in his Montreal

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Cost of Wedding

Axel Timo Purr

David Maillu, Ngei Estate, Nairobi

Becoming a writer in colonial times in Kenya is like a psychological overview of African Development itself – as liberating as constricting

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The sanity of the couch

Jan Single / Ullsteinbuchverlage

Philipp Felsch

The cosmopolitan and the provincial, the universalist and the particularist - Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas

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"You almost have the feeling you're dealing with two different authors"

Jan Single / Ullsteinbuchverlage

Philipp Felsch

The philosopher as educator of the Germans: Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas

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A popular classic as a subversive masterpiece

Michael Avedon

Percival Everett

Percival Everett retells Mark Twain's young adult novel Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim - "James" is a tragicomic novel about racism, identity, human abysses and friendship

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People must be crazy

Sébastien Van Malleghem / Zsolnay

Gaea Schoeter

"Trophy", Gaea Schoeter's novel about big game hunting and Africa, is an intelligent and passionate introspection into post-colonial sensitivities and a Western morality that has degenerated into a luxury product

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Bookworms of the world , unite!

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco - A Library of the World: Davide Ferrario's documentary is a hymn to the universe of books

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Trapped in narratives

Yandé Seck's debut novel "White Clouds" masterfully explores the search for identity of two adult sisters with a migrant background without losing sight of the ambivalent, woke German present

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Kafka three ways

Majestic / Paramount Pictures Germany

Franz Kafka (Sabin Tambrea)

Michael Kumpfmüller imagines Franz Kafka's last year of life with Dora Diamant in "The Glory of Life" - the film adaptation is disappointing, but the mini-series "Kafka" by Daniel Kehlmann and David Schalko is inspiring

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Bad girls, dark books

Studiocanal

Jenna Ortega

Jade Halley Bartlett's literary and erotic thriller "Miller's Girl" is a bizarre and always surprising young-adult melange in which the supposedly lame world of books meets furious Tik-Tok teens

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In the Shadow of the Inheritance

Julien Salinas

Iman Humaidan

"Songs for Darkness" - the lives of four Lebanese women in a novel by Iman Humaidan

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The blessing of migration

Wilma Hoogendoorn / S. Fischer Verlag

Hein de Haas

Hein de Haas' "How Migration Really works - A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics" is a book that is as clever as it is frustrating, and should be compulsory reading in every school

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Literature.Review as a movie

Part 1: Past, politics & present

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