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

Fabian Lenthe's poetry collection "Streichhölzer" (Matches) is a fresh take on established and much-prized contemporary poetry, and well worth reading

Subjective comments on the 48th Days of German-Language Literature 2024 in Klagenfurt

One of Europe's last great storytellers has died. Ismail Kadaré chronicled a future of a past, with a mastery of language so crystalline it could cut like a scalpel

The city and the couple

On the anatomy of the happy football fan

Authors who narrate in the first person are not necessarily talking from their own perspective. How and from which perspective do our favourite authors tell their stories? The best way to find out is to invite them to talk to us in person

EURO 2024 is likely to show once again that the professions of referee and literary critic have more in common than some might think

Moni Stănilă's poem "34. We lived well for a while"

Shedding light on some strange manifestations of shame in Rwandan society

A Socio-critical overview of trajectories of the ‘South African novel’, 2020 – 2023

From Haiti to the U.S.: In Search of a New Language for Migration and the Encounter with our Demons and Dreams

Hala Kawsarani’s new novel is one of the most intriguing recent publications in the Arabic-speaking world and has been hailed by Arab critics - we present a short excerpt