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
"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
Yandé Seck's debut novel "White Clouds" masterfully explores the search for identity of two adult sisters with a migrant background without losing sight of the ambivalent, woke German present
Michael Kumpfmüller imagines Franz Kafka's last year of life with Dora Diamant in "The Glory of Life" - the film adaptation is disappointing, but the mini-series "Kafka" by Daniel Kehlmann and David Schalko is inspiring
Jade Halley Bartlett's literary and erotic thriller "Miller's Girl" is a bizarre and always surprising young-adult melange in which the supposedly lame world of books meets furious Tik-Tok teens
Hein de Haas' "How Migration Really works - A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics" is a book that is as clever as it is frustrating, and should be compulsory reading in every school
Baobab Books has been publishing picture books, children's stories and young adult fiction from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania and the Middle East in German translation since 1990, providing authentic insights into other worlds
The Frankfurt Book Fair may be the largest book fair in the world but Bangladesh's month-long book extravaganza, the Ekushey Book Fair, is definitely the longest
In "Climate injustice", Friederike Otto emphasises that we should prepare for the consequences of climate change. This is illustrated with case studies from around the world. But regardless of what happens and where, the West is always to blame