All Gomorrahs Are the Same
Maake
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Nhlanhla Maake
A Socio-critical overview of trajectories of the ‘South African novel’, 2020 – 2023
"I think that the creative is stronger than the destructive!"
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Manès Sperber's magnum opus, his trilogy of novels "Like a Tear in the Ocean", is finally available again. Editor Rudolf Isler explains in an interview why Sperber is still so important today
The Underworld of the First World
Getro Saint-Pha
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Erica Joseph
From Haiti to the U.S.: In Search of a New Language for Migration and the Encounter with our Demons and Dreams
The Day of the Sun
Bassel Salloukh
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
Journey into the swamp of the soul
Grit Hartung
In "Realm of Shame. Talking about Sex", Christine Koschmieder explores her own sexuality and recounts the evolution of sexuality in Germany from the 1960s to the present day
Abirached, Sfar, Simpsons, Žeželj & Franquin
Privat by Bravo
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Winfried Weiser by Bravo
News and important new releases in the comic sector
Oh Helpmefurther: The parrot is sending the dog into a frenzy
WikiCommons
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Ahmad Schauqi
Leonie Nückell translates the wonderfully wicked children's verses by the great Egyptian poet Ahmad Schauqi as lovingly as she does creatively, and the artist Said Baalbaki paints the accompanying pictures - a rare stroke of luck
The first intellectual of modern times
Geert Snoejer / Ullstein
"Erasmus - Biography of a Freethinker" by Sandra Langereis is a fascinating book about the life and times of the great humanist- and a balm needed just as much in today's world as in the 1500s.
Help! Malawian literature is drowning and needs to be rescued!
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Stanley Onjezani Kenani
Since the fall of the autocratic president and book lover Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the book industry and literary production in the south-east African country has virtually come to a standstill
Come in. I'll show you my pictures. I painted them myself.
"Comrade Cuckoo" is Anke Feuchtenberger's contribution to the rapidly changing imagery of the Ninth Art
Gallant lies 2
Dirk Skiba
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Alexandru Bulucz
The furniture of Celan's poetry
In search of the lost time
Steven Borges
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Janes Borges
India is not all about the current elections and empowered nationalism and Hinduism, it’s also about the untold stories of national migration and a project conserving their memories
Language can also be a weapon
Paula Winkler
In her novel "Vierundsiebzig" (seventy-four), Ronya Othmann comes close to the limit of human suffering. It is an important travel novel on places of crimes against humanity and an impressive journey into the depths of one's own self.
30 Years Later
Zawadi Tumukunde (Bella)
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Patrick Nzabonimpa
In April 1994, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began. Looking at intergenerational Rwandan literature, one finds that not only the older generation of writers continues to grapple with this trauma
The Slow Pace of Change
Private
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Theresa Patrine Ennin
An Exploration of Ghanaian Masculinities from Colonial to Present Times
Imaginary Lives in Sudan’s War Zone
Judy Laing
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Leila Aboulela
Recent Sudanese novels highlight the lives of those caught up in Sudan’s internal wars. Literature reflects the resilience of the Sudanese people and provides a background to the horrific fighting and consequences unfolding
Breaking the silence, overcoming fear
Samar Gisele EL RAHEB
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Iman Humaydan
The Arabic language and creative writing as a means of linguistic emancipation and social liberation
Leonard’s City
Arianna Tortora
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Jonathan Garfinkel
Encounters with Leonard Cohen in his Montreal
Cost of Wedding
Axel Timo Purr
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David Maillu, Ngei Estate, Nairobi
Becoming a writer in colonial times in Kenya is like a psychological overview of African Development itself – as liberating as constricting
The sanity of the couch
Jan Single / Ullsteinbuchverlage
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Philipp Felsch
The cosmopolitan and the provincial, the universalist and the particularist - Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas
"You almost have the feeling you're dealing with two different authors"
Jan Single / Ullsteinbuchverlage
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Philipp Felsch
The philosopher as educator of the Germans: Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas
A popular classic as a subversive masterpiece
Michael Avedon
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett retells Mark Twain's young adult novel Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim - "James" is a tragicomic novel about racism, identity, human abysses and friendship
People must be crazy
Sébastien Van Malleghem / Zsolnay
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Gaea Schoeter
"Trophy", Gaea Schoeter's novel about big game hunting and Africa, is an intelligent and passionate introspection into post-colonial sensitivities and a Western morality that has degenerated into a luxury product