Poet and cultural activist Cynthia Marangwanda from Zimbabwe speaks with Mbizo Chirasha about writing as an essential tool to understand life, ancestral heritage, and the literary voices that shaped her work.
#booksky #Zimbabwe #AfricanLiterature #AfricanPoetry
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Our review of The West (Josephine Quinn) and The West (Georgios Varouxakis) explores the long intellectual history behind the concept and explains how these narratives help make a war like the current one against Iran possible...
#booksky #PoliticalTheory #nonfiction
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For the final story of our Short Story Month, we move from Saudi Arabia to Iceland. In “The Situation”, Jakub Stachowiak crafts a precise, unsettling reflection on memory and perception — a story where reality feels both solid and fragile at once.
#booksky #iceland
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Two sharp, unsettling short stories from Saudi Arabia by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed. In Behind the Glasses, illusion meets inheritance: Prada frames, a vanished store, a dead father’s lenses — and the fragile line between memory and reality...
#booksky #saudiarabia #arabic
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Kabul-based writer Dunya Yousufzai writes from within a fracture — echoing Leonard Cohen’s line that “there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Between loss and endurance, her story finds precisely that fragile, defiant light...
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As part of our Short Story Month, we feature “The Mother of the House” — a haunting story by one of Tajikistan’s most renowned authors...
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In 'Under The Silence Of Gold', Madagascan author Mi Ravao delivers a sharply political text on the merciless exploitation of land and people. A powerful indictment of extractivism and global inequality...
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We are proud to publish autofictional texts by Philippine authour Al Joseph Lumen, drawn from his work in a German nursing home — written with restraint, attentiveness, and a quiet tenderness toward care, labor, and human vulnerability.
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Absolutely - and a great parallel indeed.
A Functionary’s Story by Brazilian author Leonardo Garzaro explores how economic structures shape personal identity in a globalized world, quietly, relentlessly, and with disturbing precision. A short story about work, power, and the fragility of self.
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We are kicking off our biannual month of exclusively short stories with ‘Khemji – An Indian Tragedy’ by Waseem Hussain. A text that condenses social order, guilt and repression into a confined space...
#booksky #india #shortstory #switzerland #swissliterature
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Five poems from Saudi Arabia by Ali Al Hazmi: loss, desire, exile, the sea as memory and threat. A street through a wall — powerful contemporary Arabic poetry in translation...
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“Life is already difficult enough.” Egpytian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on absurdity, fantasy, writing under pressure, and why literature can never fully escape reality...
#booksky #egypt #cairo #arabicliterature #arabliterature #egyptianliterature #arabic
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A boy, a teddy bear, and a quiet escape into the tall grass. ‚Into the Uncut Grass‘ by Trevor Noah & Sabina Hahn is a gentle fable about decisions, freedom, and finding your way home—without preaching...
#booksky #children #childrenliterature #trevornoah
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Is Moroccan literature really marginal — or radically plural? In this essay, Mohamed Khalfouf explores canon formation, multilingualism and literary renewal beyond the centre...
#MoroccanLiterature #Morocco #bluesky #arabicliterature
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„Hitler was a leftist“: In „Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich“ (The German Democratic Reich), historian Volker Weiß shows how right-wing politics is made possible today by the rewriting and reinterpreting of history.
#booksky #PoliticalNarratives #RightWingPolitics
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Martin R. Dean’s ‚Tobacco and Chocolate‘ confronts colonial amnesia with a transcontinental family narrative. A powerful literary journey that challenges collective forgetting and reframes cultural memory.
#booksky #PostcolonialLiterature #switzerland #colonialism
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“Why re-read a classic that once shocked the world?” Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem returns as a Penguin Modern Classic—and sparks fresh questions about canon, controversy, and post-colonial...
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In the poems of Hannes Wesendonk, there is no lyrical first-aid kit — just a colourful plate of everyday moments, laconic tones, and subtle breaks. Open, restrained, and deliberately unpolished.
#booksky #poetry #poems #lyrik
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With Layeq Sherali, we present one of Tajikistan’s most significant poetic voices — our Poet of the Month. Two poems that merge classical Persian-Tajik forms with existential clarity: self and river, love and withdrawal, intensity without excess...
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Between the everyday and the unseen: short prose by Franco-Algerian author Ghizlan Touati. “In the World and Beyond…” captures fragile moments, memory, and presence with quiet force....
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Thanks - will check it out!
80 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, how can its memory be passed on to children? Shaw Kuzki’s ‚Soul Lanterns‘ tells a quiet, powerful story about remembrance, language, and growing up in the shadow of August 6.
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The almost classic Christmas story is here: 'A Hindu Festival Called Christmas' by Kiran Nagarkar, one of India’s most significant writers, shows how a deeply Christian festival can be transformed through another religion...
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Re-reading Nobel Prize–winner Halldór Laxness between the Global North & South. Biographer Halldór Guðmundsson in conversation with Axel Timo Purr on colonialism, poverty, nature — and why Laxness speaks powerfully to the Global South today.
#booksky #iceland
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Literature is losing space: newspapers cut literary pages, and non-mainstream voices disappear first. Literatur.Review pushes back — independent, multilingual, free, and largely volunteer-run. Your donation keeps diversity visible...
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India is now the world’s most populous country – but what does that really mean?
Our review of 'Vishwa Shastra' by Dhruva Jaishankar shows why India’s history, strategy and global role matter more than ever.
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