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Between the lines

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Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller) & Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler)

With 'Fatherland', Paweł Pawlikowski responds to Colm Tóibín’s Thomas Mann novel with radical minimalism: a film of glances, pauses and empty spaces – overwhelmingly beautiful, though at times too ascetic

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The Water Knows

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Eunice Tayamika Maganga

A short story from Malawi

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The Two of Them

Renata Massetti

João Anzanello Carrascoza

A short story from Brazil

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A Night at the Simurgh* Hotel

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Mariam Al-Attar

A short story from southern Iraq

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The Martyr

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Kunal Basu

A short story from Kolkata, India

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Walking Home

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Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri

A short story from Ghana

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Ayla and Fuat

Don Lancaster

Safeta Obhodjaš

A short story set in Bosnia, Turkey, and Germany—and the Europe in between

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Forbidden Food

Private

Abil Hasanov

A story from Azerbaijan

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Wishes Do Come True

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Mia Tijam

A short story from Naga City in Camarines Sur, Bicol Region, Philippines

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Zero

Sana Khalid

Stella Gaitano

A short story from South Sudan

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The Mukhtar and I

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Michel S. Moushabeck

An exile’s very last summer in the old city of Jerusalem

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The Bottle Man

House of Anansi / Su Chang

Su Chang

A Chinese-Canadian Story

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You can't talk about oil

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Nastaran Makaremi

Refineries, a curse, and black gold. Workers, legends, petroleum. Nastaran Makaremi’s novel "Total" revolves around oil. And then becomes part of its next transformation.

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The Screams in the Basement of Aesthetics

Alexandrapociello, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Roberto Bolaño

On Art, Silence, and Moral Complicity

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The Hippie by the Lake

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Heike Behrend

Ethnologist Heike Behrend is researching a German provincial prophet who ran a commercial "Garden of Paradise" in the Altmark region in the early 20th century

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“As Long as I Dream in Arabic, I Will Write in Arabic”

Julien Salinas

Iman Humaydan

A conversation with Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan about her latest novel, Lebanon, memory, patriarchy, migration – and why literature is stronger than a manifesto

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Writing Against Forgetting

Julien Salinas

Iman Humaydan

Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan speaks about her novel 'Songs for Darkness', the memory of war, women’s lives, migration, and why literature can preserve what history and politics often erase.

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The fish rots from the head down

Pete Marovich

Evan Osnos

Today’s financial elite are ultra-rich. The term refers to the ultimate level of wealth, beyond anything that can be tangibly grasped. In “The Haves and Have-Yachts”, Evan Osnos brings us news from another world.

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The End of the Odyssey

Universal

If only Christopher Nolan had listened to James Joyce. Instead, he transforms Homer’s fluid, ambiguous 'Odyssey' into a rigid monument of masculine pathos, plot-driven drama, and sensory overload.

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The New Republic of Fear...

AI-Illustration: Axel Timo Purr

The Queer Body and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Iraq

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Presence

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Bruno Elías Maduro

Is humanity an unsolvable enigma? A critical reflection on the limits of the human sciences, the impossibility of fully understanding the other, and the crisis in our understanding of humanity

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A Taste of Home, A Language of Belonging

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Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri

Award-winning Ghanaian writer Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri on grief, belonging, Black imagination, literary life in Ghana, and why writing began with unfinished drawings

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The Topography of the Repressed

Akwasi Bediako Afrane

Akwasi Bediako Afrane, „TC-2000“ (Visualisierung), 2025

What does waste tell us about our world? An exhibition in Dortmund traces the global journey of waste, highlighting the connections between the economy, waste, and recycling, and looks at the consequences for people and the environment

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