February 11 is Monja Blanca Day in Guatemala, a national holiday that honors the rare white orchid, which was designated the national flower in 1934. Here, we reflect on national symbols and talk to botanist Fredy Archila, who is committed to protecting the flower. pocolit.com/en/2026/02/1...
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Before 2025 is coming to an end, we have some news: we moved our newsletter from Mailchimp to Steady. If you're already a subscriber, nothing changes for you. If you want to subscribe click here: steady.page/de/pocolit/n...
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian is a story grounded in real life struggles bolstered by ancient magic and spirituality, history, and a nerve-jangling heist. pocolit.com/en/2025/12/0...
In her latest essay, Priya Singh thinks about gold as an ancient system of empowerment and connects it to a recent experience at her gynecologist’s. pocolit.com/en/2025/11/1...
It must be challenging to write your next book after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Abdulrazak Gurnah did it and you can read more about his latest novel #Theft here: pocolit.com/en/2025/11/1...
Dennis Mugaa’s debut collection, ‘Half Portraits Underwater,’ has quickly marked him as one of the most compelling new voices in Kenyan literature. We've just published an interview with him
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A novel about loss and how to deal with it: When we were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
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logo des pocolit podcasts. darunter steht: mittwoch, folge 13, 54 minuten. kannst du vom übersetzen leben? ein gespräch mit dejla jassim
"ich kann vom übersetzen leben, weil ich in armut aufgewachsen bin"
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We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
Im deutschen #Kolonialismus diente die #Funktechnik als Instrument kolonialer Kontrolle. Wir stellen euch Bücher und eine Ausstellung vor, in denen verschiedene Aspekte dieser Geschichte und ihrer Folgen verhandelt werden. pocolit.com/2025/09/12/h...
Kiran Desai’s novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a reverse Alice in Wonderland where the protagonist is hellbent on escaping the madness of a world that stifles him – until he and his family learn how to manipulate it to their advantage. pocolit.com/en/2025/09/0...
poco.lit. hosts a German language #podcast. But, as an exception, our latest episode is in English. We hear from two members of the fieldnotes collective, Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles, about their recent publication “This too is a glistening”. tinyurl.com/hzvekxrp
Probably the most beautiful love story we've read in a long time. Caleb Azumah Nelson impresses with his poetic language throughout his debut novel Open Water. pocolit.com/en/2025/08/2...
Food writing is a diverse genre that explores food-related topics and goes far beyond recipes and cooking techniques. In literary works, food can, for example, be used as a metaphor, a thematic element, to explore identities or relationships. Here are some recommendations pocolit.com/en/2025/08/0...
Fiona Williams' The House of Broken Bricks is a sad and beautiful story about the cracks in the lives of the Hembrys, a mixed-race family in rural Somerset. It's about grief, gardening, cooking, and, eventually, healing. pocolit.com/en/2025/07/1...
New essay: it explores how public responses to the statues of Edward Colston in Bristol and Cecil Rhodes in Oxford expose tensions within Britain’s collective memory. pocolit.com/en/2025/07/0...
In unserer neuen Podcastfolge sprechen wir mit Buchhändler*innen, die Dinge anders machen woll(t)en: Wie sieht eine Diversitybuchhandlung aus? Wie lässt sich ein Buchladen kollektiv betreiben und kann er ein antikapitalistischer Ort sein? pocolit.com/2025/06/18/1...
Olufunke Grace Bankole's novel artfully tells the story of three generations of women in Ibadan and New Orleans who try to follow their dreams, which is hard, because of patriarchal social structures, natural disasters and disregarded prophecies. pocolit.com/en/2025/06/1...
Anita Desai's latest novel is a reminder that a part of literature’s power is to take us outside of ourselves. Being lost in a story is not shameful, it’s important to our healing and sanity. So find yourself a few cozy, uninterrupted hours to settle down with Rosarita. pocolit.com/en/2025/06/0...
ja, das stimmt! Haben wir ebenfalls sehr gerne gelesen!
Marcia C. Schencks Buch Von Luanda und Maputo nach Ost-Berlin: Erinnerungen Afrikanischer Werktätiger an die DDR ist gerade in deutscher Übersetzung von Joe Paul Kroll im Ch. Links Verlag erschienen. poco.lit. durfte einen Auszug aus der Einleitung veröffentlichen. pocolit.com/2025/05/27/v...
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In unserer neuen Podcastfolge sprechen wir mit Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner über Ungerechtigkeiten und Solidarität in der Literaturbranche und der Nerd-Culture. Hört doch mal rein pocolit.com/2025/05/21/0...
Louise Kennedy’s „Übertretung“ spielt 1975, zum Höhepunkt der Troubles in Nordirland. In der Geschichte rund um die katholische Grundschullehrerin Cushla stellt Kennedy geschickt Fragen über Unrecht und Moral. Auf poco.lit. findet ihr unsere gesamte Rezension pocolit.com/2025/05/14/u...
Our event with Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles this afternoon is part of the minor cosmopolitan intervention. Check out the full program, you'll notice that some of the events will be streamed. So if you can't make it in person, maybe see you on Zoom? www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosm...
Are you in Berlin this Saturday? Then please join us for a conversation with Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles about collaborative nature writing. Date and time: May 10,2025, 4-5:30pm; Place: Spore Initative, Hermannstr. 86, 12051 Berlin. pocolit.com/en/2025/04/0...
In einem Text für poco.lit. fragt Methu Tharavasa, welchen Beitrag postkoloniale Ansätze zur Antidiskriminierungsarbeit in Deutschland leisten können, und bezieht sich dabei auf viele Jahre Erfahrung in der Erwachsenenbildung. pocolit.com/2025/04/30/p...
Die erste Folge unserer neuen Podcast Staffel ist online! Es geht darum, dass Kultur Geld braucht. Wir bieten einen exklusiven Blick hinter die Kulissen und verraten wie wir Literaturprojekte umsetzen können: pocolit.com/2025/04/23/0...
Percival Everett’s latest novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett gives Jim the opportunity to tell his own story. And our new contributor Jana Künker reviewed the book for poco.lit. pocolit.com/en/2025/04/1...
