Ayla and Fuat
Don Lancaster
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Safeta Obhodjaš
A short story set in Bosnia, Turkey, and Germany—and the Europe in between
Wishes Do Come True
Private
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Mia Tijam
A short story from Naga City in Camarines Sur, Bicol Region, Philippines
The Mukhtar and I
Private
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Michel S. Moushabeck
An exile’s very last summer in the old city of Jerusalem
The Bottle Man
House of Anansi / Su Chang
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Su Chang
A Chinese-Canadian Story
You can't talk about oil
Private
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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.
The Screams in the Basement of Aesthetics
Alexandrapociello, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Roberto Bolaño
On Art, Silence, and Moral Complicity
The Hippie by the Lake
Private
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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
“As Long as I Dream in Arabic, I Will Write in Arabic”
Julien Salinas
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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
Writing Against Forgetting
Julien Salinas
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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.
The fish rots from the head down
Pete Marovich
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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.
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.
The New Republic of Fear...
AI-Illustration: Axel Timo Purr
The Queer Body and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Iraq
Presence
Private
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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
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
The Topography of the Repressed
Akwasi Bediako Afrane
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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
The Bitterness of Proximity
Bea Phi, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Yang Shuang-zi
Yang Shuang-zi’s award-winning novel 'Taiwan Travelogue' blends colonial history, desire and culinary art with as much emotion as intelligence – and every dish is allowed to tell a story of power
I'm not a traitor!
Private
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Radhia Toumi
Neither traitor nor impostor: the translator as a conduit of meaning, a builder of cultural bridges, and a facilitator of dialogue among peoples
Identity and Presentation
Ziyu Wang, 2026
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Ziyu Wang, Lads, 2023 – Aus der Serie "Go Get'Em Boy"
How does Gen Z view the world? Photographers from this generation – born between 1995 and 2010 – are now exhibiting their work in Frankfurt am Main, following their presentation at Photo Elysée in Lausanne.
The biggest heist of all time?
Debashree Mitra
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William Dalrymple
In "The Anarchy", William Dalrymple recounts how the British East India Company conquered the mighty Mughal Empire, plundered the wealthy region of Bengal, and, in its day, became an early symbol of global corporate power
The song of the heartbroken
Abderrahim Annag
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Abdellah Taïa
Abdellah Taïa's "Die Bastion der Tränen" is a poetic and painful novel about homosexuality, exile and the incurable wounds of origin, family and social confinement in a Morocco of memory
Those who remain silent about techno-capitalism are talking about vampires
Nat Ruiz
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Madeline Cash
A billionaire, the blood of young women, bomb-making, Islamists online: Madeline Cash collects contemporary conspiracy theories. It’s funny, but why does 'Lost Lambs' remain silent when power is laid bare?