Running away from life, fighting death
Tasova
Macedonian Vlado Janevski shows in his new novel "Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe" the truth within the truth or the novel within the novel - an amazing endeavour
Back to the Future
Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Álvaro Enrigue @ 2016 Hay Festival
Álvaro Enrigue’s „You Dreamed Of Empires“ takes a complex and vivid look on the first step of the Spanish colonisation of what was then Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City
Slavery is not in the world, it is in us
Emmanuelle Marchadour / Jacoby & Stuart
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Paulin Ismard
"Worlds of Slavery - A Comparative History" was published in 2021 by Éditions du Seuil in France. It covers the history of slavery from the end of the Bronze Age to the present day. An essential read.
The present as past
Plaion Pictures / Studiocanal
"The Peasants" transforms the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władysław Reymont into an artistically exciting but fundamentally disappointing drama of a young 19th century peasant girl's self-empowerment
Vanistendael, Alfonz, Larcenet & McCarthy, Ross, Adlard & Spurrier, Beuriot & Richelle
Privat by Bravo
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Winfried Weiser by Bravo
Important new releases and news in the comic sector
Ethnography and critique of colonialism avant la lettre
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Georg Forster
As criticism of colonialism and bitter debates on cultural appropriation resurface, it is worth looking back to the 18th century and to Georg Forster, one of the most fascinating thinkers of his time
Minsk Sea
Julia Cimafiejeva / Voland & Quist
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Alhierd Bacharevič
A story from Belarus - translated from Belarusian into German by Tina Wünschmann
Tungkong Langit + Alunsina
Jomar Empaynado
A Creation Story from the Philippines - translated from the Filipino into English by Allan N. Derain
The blessing of literature
Cindy Nick
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Christoph Nick
A German-Mauritian story
Sukri Slips the Blade
Stomata Rawamangun
A short story from Indonesia - translated from the Indonesian into English by Nikmah Khamis
A Mermaid for a Bride
Maake
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Nhlanhla Maake
A story from South Africa
Vladimir Vladimirovich Takes A Drive
Juliette Conroy
A short story from the US, written in 2019, before Vladimir Vladimirovich began to occupy Ukraine (and after seizing Crimea)
Room 202
Paul A. Castillo
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Chuckberry J. Pascual
A short story from the Philippines - translated from Tagalog into English by Joseph T. Salazar
Obituary
Private
A story from North Macedonia - translated into German by Ksenija Chochkova
Unheard Story
Meghachandra Kongbam
A Manipuri Folktale translated from Meitei into English by Dr Khumukcham Ajit Singh
Plugging the leak
Private
A Story from India - translated from Gujarati into English by Aban Mukherji and Tulsi Vatsal
The Foreigner's Widow
Julien Salinas
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Iman Humaydan
A story from Lebanon - translated from Arabic into German by Hartmut Fähndrich
Our share of happiness
Maryan Harrington
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Ron Rash
Ron Rash's modern version of Romeo and Juliet, "The Caretaker", about an America in the time of the Korean War, shows both tenderly and mercilessly that the present-day divisions in the USA have always been there
Of course, I am ashamed
Hartwig Klappert
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Taqi Akhlaqi
In traditional Afghan society, shame has an almost state-supporting function, but in the Afghan diaspora it finds new, no less dramatic ways of expressing itself