Love and unexpected moves in a time of grief
Kalpesh Lathigra
„Intermezzo“ - a musical interlude, an unexpected chess move, and now Sally Rooney’s latest novel, in which she tackles the universal themes of grief, loss and love
Eighteenth message: A cigarette between two deaths
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Blind blood in the corridor - a war diary from Gaza
Novel with black bars
Paula Winkler
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Clemens Böckmann
In "What you can get", Clemens Böckmann gives a harrowing insight into the life of a sex worker who spied for the Stasi and into the "real existing socialism" of the German Democratic Republic, which was dissolved in 1989
I am another in Palestine
Mathilde Pannet
What does it mean to be a Palestinian in the diaspora, an outsider who can only contemplate his homeland from his hereditary exile through the characters in his novels? A homeland of fading words, images and stories
What I don't seek, I find
Daniel Hengst / Poetenladen
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Tom Schulz
With his three cycles in "Die Erde hebt uns auf" (The earth lifts us up), Tom Schulz has produced an outstanding volume of poetry that is as beautifully sad as it is formally rigorous, political in identity and combative
Must everything change for things to remain as they are?
Hans-Guenther Kaufmann / C.H.Beck
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Armin Nassehi
In "Kritik der großen Geste" (Critique of the grand gesture), sociology professor Armin Nassehi calls for politicians to refrain from making huge demands in times of major crises and opt instead for a policy of small steps
Insanity is round
Sophia Evans / Guardian / eyevine / laif
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Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill's boldly composed and carefully researched football novel "Godwin" plays with the question of whether a biography with any degree of integrity can still unfold in this crazy world
Haiti and its diaspora in Mayday mode
Revista Etnica
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Erica Joseph
On the power of social media, election campaigns, the USA as a failed immigration country and migrant paradoxes
Of encounters and misunderstandings
José David Schulz
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María Ignacia Schulz
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Does the European Union have a future?
Rafaela Pröll / Suhrkamp
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Robert Menasse
In "The World of Tomorrow: A Sovereign Democratic Europe - and its Enemies", Robert Menasse asks whether nationalism is becoming the gravedigger of the EU and whether European elites are failing
What we keep quiet in the "truck"
James Alquintor
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Jhak Valcourt
The current extremely brutal deportations of Haitians from the Dominican Republic are not just a journey into hell.
„Islam is not anti-feminist!“
Axel Timo Purr
Writer, poet and lecturer Nenden Lilis Aisyah on the development of Indonesian literature, politics, mass killings and massacres, feminism and the modern approach to Islam in Indonesia.
On sentences and lizards
Christoph Rütimann
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Zsuzsanna Gahse
The moods of different languages and the corresponding moods of the speakers
Being able to love nothing and no one
Privat
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Gianfranco Calligarich
In "Like a Wild God", Gianfranco Calligarich transforms a forgotten, cruel piece of the puzzle that is Italian colonial history into a postmodern, refracted, sparkling and contemporary mosaic.
Afro-poetic confessions of an educated black woman
José Arturo Ballester Panelli
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Mayra Santos-Febres
What else does a black female writer have to do in this world? What does she do with the rage that consumes her when she is again marginalized or used as "the attraction" for show? And what does she do with her throbbing shame?
Have a future
Paula Winkler
Literature behind bars: As part of the ILB, Ronya Othmann reads in the open prison in Spandau, Berlin.
A long overdue novel about "white skins" and "red skins"
Elena Seibert/Hanser
"Wandering Stars", the new novel by Tommy Orange, is a gripping Native American family epic of volcanic force
We are all in the jungle
David Herzog
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Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
In "The Raven Who Loved Me", Sudanese Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin transforms a migrant's deadly journey into a comedy - a courageous and well-executed feat
Franz Kafka meets Agatha Christie
Gene Glover / Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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Daniel Kehlmann
In "About Leo Perutz", Daniel Kehlmann enthuses about this forgotten writer and shows why his novels are still worth reading decades after their publication