Of encounters and misunderstandings
José David Schulz
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María Ignacia Schulz
Frankfurt Book Fair Reviews
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
Visual and perceptual spaces
Ute Schendel
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Urs Engeler
On Urs Engler - legend of German-language literature, poetry in particular -and his collection of poems "nicht nichts (not nothing)" (poems 1984-2024)
The hacker
Javier Romero
A feminist, accustomed to insult as a device, tells us what a hacker taught her about machismo.
Inside the mind of Theresa Nages
Judith Stehlik / dtv
Barbara Zeman's "Betelgeuse" is an original work of linguistic art and an elixir for the heart, mind and all the senses
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
