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Representatives of the participating states at the Bandung Conference, April 18-24, 1955 (front left Gamal Abd el Nasser and right Jawaharlal Nehru)
70 years after the Bandung Conference, Jan C. Jansen and Jürgen Ostermann present an updated edition of "Decolonization: The End of Empires" - at a time when a dangerous neo-imperialism is powerfully rearing its head
When America was divided
Brian McConkey
In her historical novel "The Great Divide", Cristina Henríquez weaves a series of smaller stories into a comprehensive picture of the "Panama Canal" project of the last century, which continues to divide the double continent to this day
Goodbye Carmen Karim...
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Manahel Alsahoui
I'm finally free of my pseudonym: A Syrian Writer and Journalist's Story of Surviving and Thriving
Writing while disappearing
Heike Steinweg / Suhrkamp
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Annie Ernaux
Finally in German , "I Remain in Darkness" - and an Annie Ernaux who perhaps wants nothing more and literature that can do everything after all
Shake It Off
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Jenny Ortuoste
A short story from the Philippines
The unique nature of the European Union
Martin Henze
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Ulrich Haltern
Human DNA isn't the only double helix; there are also the EU's interlocking legal systems. Ulrich Haltern gets to the bottom of this in "Entangled States". He provides important insights in challenging times
Rich women, stupid men
librairie mollat, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2015
Activism is rarely good for literature: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's emancipation novel "Dream Count" about four women in times of coronavirus is as redundant as it is annoying
The day I fell in love with a theatre!
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Rosa Yassin Hassan
About the places that shape us and that we shape - narratives on the Syria of yesterday and the Syria of today.
in the deep mud
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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E.E. Cummings 1953
On the morally ambivalent reading of E.E. Cumming's poems, particularly "my sweet old etcetera", a poem about and against war. Or is it?
Movie Star
Anastasia Datta
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Eugene Datta
A coming-of-age story from Kolkata
A dictator is only human...
Éditions Delcourt, Meyer – Costantini, 2024
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Eric Meyer
...and that is probably the greatest insult to Xi Jinping. Eric Meyer (text) and Gianluca Costantini (illustrator) tell the story of Xi Jinping's life in their graphic novel "Xi Jinping, the Emperor of Silence"
A cat in front of the silence room
Patrick Schelle
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Mamoun Eltlib
Even before the 2019 revolution and the current civil war, the Sudanese were fighting against their ruling elite: a literary reportage
Driving through the cold of a moonlit night
Arman Febrian
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Felix Nesi
Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu" is a literary firework display that places an otherwise barely mentioned region of Indonesia at the heart of astonishing events
Get out
Shaqeel Alblushi | شكيل البلوشي
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Bushra Khalfan
Muscat seen through a writer's eyes
Captain Wants to Go to Dili
Arman Febrian
A story from Timor's colonial past - Translated into English from the Indonesian by Nadhif Seto Sanubari
The age-old dilemma of journalism vs. literature
Juan Bernate
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Juan Carlos Guardela Vásquez
A look at Latin American literature and the boundaries between truth and falsehood to illustrate the need for the chronicle as a literary resource.
A boredom worth living for
Rick Hewes
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Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner "Orbital" shows from afar what, up close, we fail to grasp - the fragility of our planet and our solitary lives
One hundred poems, sixty Lebanese poets
Julien Salinas
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Iman Humaydan
"Dusk" brings together fragmented poetic worlds and gives them voice in three languages
The Story Behind the Story
Juliette Conroy
A historical crime novel, "No. 10 Doyers Street" (March 2025) tells the story of a woman journalist from India who becomes embroiled in the case of a Chinatown gangster in 1900s New York City. The historical background is startlingly realistic.
Great art! Great art?
Privat by Bravo
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Winfried Weiser by Bravo
A look back at some of the most notable comics from the last year
To my teacher with love. A tribute to María Lugones
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In increasingly hostile times, voices that remind us why we fight are vital. Like that of María Lugones, who was mentor to our author, the Caribbean writer and anti-colonial thinker Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso.