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Literature

Milk Shakes and Daddies

Submitted by Bebang Siy on Sat, 01/11/2025 - 11:00
Literature
Bebang Siy
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Bebang Siy
A story from Manila, Philippines. Translated from Filipino into English by Ken Ishikawa.
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Literature

Biryani

Submitted by Ali AlShaali on Thu, 01/09/2025 - 13:00
Literature
Ali AlShaalli
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A story from the United Arab Emirates
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Literature

The false king

Submitted by Laila Abdullah on Tue, 01/07/2025 - 13:00
Literature
Laila Abdallah
Private
A story from Oman
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Literature

Molar

Submitted by Carlos Vázquez Cruz on Sun, 01/05/2025 - 13:00
Literature
Carlos Vázquez Cruz
Mark White
A Puerto Rican man in Michigan talks about loss and shame experienced whilst pursuing a doctoral degree in North Carolina
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Literature

Railroad to the Sun

Submitted by Stefan Markovski on Thu, 01/02/2025 - 13:00
Literature
Stefan Markovski
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Stefan Markovski
A short story from Macedonia
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Fiction

Stupid yet still madly brilliant

Submitted by Fritz Freithoff on Mon, 12/30/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Jean D'Ameique
Edouard Caupeil
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Edouard Caupeil
In his impressive debut novel "Soleil à coudre" (A Sun to be Sewn), Jean D'Amérique tells, in powerful language, of precarious circumstances, and of a childhood that finds validation not only through this language
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Fiction

A cruelly gentle dance of ghosts

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Sat, 12/28/2024 - 05:00
Fiction
Han Kang
Yeseul Jeon
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Han Kang
"We Do Not Part", the new novel by the recently awarded Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, tells of transgenerational trauma, a tender female friendship and a reunion with a mother. And a kind of hope
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Essay

A Hindu festival called Christmas

Submitted by Kiran Nagarkar on Tue, 12/24/2024 - 13:00
Essay
Kiran Nagarkar 2018
Axel Timo Purr
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Kiran Nagarkar, 2018
Encounters between a non-practising Hindu and Roman Catholicism
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Poetry

A touching nostalgia

Submitted by Alexandru Bulucz on Sun, 12/22/2024 - 13:00
Poetry
Jörg Schieke
Jakob Wierzba
Jörg Schieke's poems in "Silverman schickt mich" (Silverman sends me) captivate with their irresolvable character, but are also a systematic poetic exploration of the legacies of the GDR
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Literature

Confession of a Killing

Submitted by Mojaffor Hossain on Fri, 12/20/2024 - 13:00
Literature
Mojaffor Hossain
Private
A short story from Bangladesh – translated from Bangla into English by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
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Essay

Still Today

Submitted by Zsuzsanna Gahse on Thu, 12/19/2024 - 13:00
Essay
Zsuzsanna Gahse
Christoph Rütimann
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Zsuzsanna Gahse
Family trees are an endlessly interesting subject for many, but a look at the different language families is equally as informative
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Fiction

We were all sleeping

Submitted by Rudolf Isler on Wed, 12/18/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Paul Lynch
Basso Cannarsa
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Paul Lynch
In his Booker Prize-winning "Prophet Song", Paul Lynch succeeds in transforming our fragile political present into a bleak vision more relevant than many political treatises
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Essay

Forgotten endings

Submitted by Rodolfo Lara Mendoza on Mon, 12/16/2024 - 13:00
Essay
Rodolfo Lara Mendoza
Gillian Henry
What do we remember if not islands? In literature, film and real life too. And it's not only the narrative that matters.
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Essay

Horror, comfort and hope

Submitted by Christoph Nick on Sat, 12/14/2024 - 13:00
Essay
Christoph Nick
Cindy Nick
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Christoph Nick
More and more people fear that humanity is facing the collapse of civilization due to climate change and other crises. Some books can help us to better understand what may be in store for us
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Literature

Every day, I leave behind a bird

Submitted by Souhaib Ayoub on Thu, 12/12/2024 - 13:00
Literature
Souhaib Ayoub
Nora Rupp
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Souhaib Ayoub
A story about wounds of identity in Lebanon and in exile
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Essay

On Not Reading Rizal

Submitted by Caroline S. Hau on Tue, 12/10/2024 - 10:47
Essay
Caroline S. Hau
Private
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Caroline S. Hau
How Misunderstanding is Essential to the Longevity of Two Filipino Literary Masterpieces
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Fiction

Journey into the heart of a toxic relationship

Submitted by Viktoria Oppenhoff on Sat, 12/07/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Lina Wolff
Gustav Bergman / Rowohlt
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Lina Wolff
In "Der Teufelsgriff" (The Devil's Grip) Lina Wolff masterfully tells the story of an "amour fou" between a Swedish woman and an Italian man in Florence
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Report

Harare's New Literary Mecca

Submitted by Philani A. Nyoni on Thu, 12/05/2024 - 13:00
Report
Philani A. Nyoni
Mgcini Nyoni
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Kristian Carlson (Sweden), Lame Pusetso (South Africa), Philani A. Nyoni (Zimbabwe) @ Harare International Literature Festival 2024
The Harare International Literary Festival not only shakes hands with writers, poets, academics and a former spy. It also fills a gaping void
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Fiction

Unwanted misfortune

Submitted by Axel Timo Purr on Tue, 12/03/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Tash Aw
Tara Sosrowardoyo
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Tash Aw
Tash Aw's memoir "Strangers on a Pier" is an illuminating and touching document about the search for family and national identity in times of migration
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Fiction

Love and unexpected moves in a time of grief

Submitted by tamsin on Fri, 11/29/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Sally Rooney
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
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Report

Eighteenth message: A cigarette between two deaths

Submitted by Fatena Al-Ghorra on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 08:45
Report
Fatena Al-Ghorra
Private
Blind blood in the corridor - a war diary from Gaza
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Fiction

Novel with black bars

Submitted by Viktoria Oppenhoff on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 13:00
Fiction
Clemens Böckmann
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
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Literature

Yesterday's dream

Submitted by Marie Tawk on Sat, 11/23/2024 - 13:00
Literature
Marie Tawk
Private
News from nowhere
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