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In his books, Abdulrazak Gurnah takes a close-up look at life under colonial rule - and probes both his East African roots and his British homeland. A conversation.
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Big politics and harsh everyday life in Brazil; family and rebellion: Itamar Vieira Junior's debut novel thrives on this colourful mix
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Breaking away from the Eurocentric view: This is the big claim of a new historical world atlas “The History of the World- An Atlas” - and it almost lives up to it
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Cheon Myeong-kwan's expansive novel “The Whale” retells South Korea's 20th-century history as a feminist fairy tale
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Taste with your feet, look through 200 eyes: Science journalist Ed Yong explores the wonderful world of animal perception.
moreAre we running out of water? (Issue III/2022)
How to write about genocide: Scholastique Mukasonga reflects on her mother’s story to chart Rwanda’s troubled history.
moreAre we running out of water? (Issue III/2022)
Climate change presents us with unprecedented challenges. The Indian historian Dipesh Chakrabarty calls for a change of perspective and in the process rediscovers human history.
moreBlack and white thinking (Issue II/2022)
The future of foreign policy is feminist, says activist and author Kristina Lunz in her new book. But what is she actually talking about?
moreBlack and white thinking (Issue II/2022)
Gulbahar Haitiwaji is the first Uighur woman to have published a book about her time in a Chinese “re-education camp”. She talks about life after publication.
moreUnder the Earth (Issue I/2022)
Libraries, archives and manuscripts: ever since they have existed, they have also been at risk. Librarian Richard Ovenden has written a history of their destruction
moreUnder the Earth (Issue I/2022)
Were gender relations hierarchical among prehistoric humans? Marylene Patou-Mathis has evidence to disprove this theory.
moreUnder the Earth (Issue I/2022)
German author Bodo Kirchhoff's new novel deals with the contradictions of the colonialist gaze.
moreUnder the Earth (Issue I/2022)
In her debut novel, author Kayo Mpoyi digs deep into her own family history.
moreMake it yourself (Issue IV/2021)
Can the climate crisis still be halted? Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of the Paris Agreement, are determined to keep looking forward.
moreThe new Poland (Issue III/2021)
In his new book, author Parag Khanna envisages a future in which we are all migrants.
moreThe new Poland (Issue III/2021)
In his new novel, Mathias Énard observes French rural life in the 21st century as though it were a strange, foreign culture.
moreThe new Poland (Issue III/2021)
In his new graphic novel, Guy Delisle illustrates the summer job he once had in a Canadian paper and pulp factory.
moreThe new Poland (Issue III/2021)
In her debut novel, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim defines both her European experience and her Ghanian roots.
moreThe hunters and the hunted (Issue II/2021)
Ten years ago, the world watched the Arab Spring with bated breath. In his new book, journalist Jörg Armbruster chronicles what is left of the revolution.
moreThe hunters and the hunted (Issue II/2021)
In her novel, author Cho Nam-Joo tells of a South Korean woman who is caught between tradition and hypermodernity.
moreThe hunters and the hunted (Issue II/2021)
At the end of the 1930s, a plague epidemic was averted in Russia. Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel about the era reads as a parable of our time.
moreThe hunters and the hunted (Issue II/2021)
Robert Winder has analysed the history of soft power - and how governments can best use it.
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Capitalism has conquered the world. But at what price? In his new book, Branko Milanović outlines his measures for a more social economic system.
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Jessica J. Lee dives deep into her family history - and into Taiwanese nature.
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How do you tell life stories that have been shaped by immigration? In their debut novels, Ronya Othmann and Deniz Ohde do exactly that.
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The graphic novel “Spit three times” by the artist Davide Reviati recalls Italy in the 1960s - and shows how susceptible people are to prejudice.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
In her book »The Ungrateful Refugee« Dina Nayeri writes about the arrogance and prejudices of those who have never been forced to leave their home country.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
Humans have often overstepped the mark in their treatment of other living creatures. Corine Pelluchon's books urge more respect for animals and nature.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
In her new novel Samanta Schweblin outlines a world in which people constantly spy on one another.
moreThe better America (Issue IV/2020)
The philosopher Remo Bodei shows us that even the most uninspiring things can talk to us.
moreA story goes around the world (Issue III/2020)
What makes a person human? The behavioural scientist Michael Tomasello compares humans with apes. His new book focuses early development in the first years of life and finds: they are like us!
moreA story goes around the world (Issue III/2020)
A conversation with the economist and author about redistribution and the potential which lies in the pandemic.
moreA story goes around the world (Issue III/2020)
The historian Norman Davies takes us on a journey through global history.
moreTalking about a revolution (Issue II/2020)
Khaled Khalifa has penned a haunting novel about Syria before the civil war.
moreTalking about a revolution (Issue II/2020)
Charles King revisits the anthropologist Franz Boas and his comrades in arms who, with their research on the Inuits and the Polynesians, were the first researchers to debunk racist theories.
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A duo of new books on feminism: Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser have written a manifesto against predatory capitalism while Kristen R. Ghodsee explores gender relations under socialism.
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The bookseller was imprisoned in China for selling political books. A conversation.
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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s story of love in Nigeria tackles taboos head-on
moreSomeone else's paradise (Issue IV/2019)
In her brilliant history, Jill Lepore unravels the contradictions of her country.
moreSomeone else's paradise (Issue IV/2019)
In a new study, the cultural scientist Sigrid Weigel scrutinises Germany’s cultural foreign policy.
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In his new book, tropical biologist Mark W. Moffett researches the ties that bind human and animal societies.
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Leïla Slimani’s latest novel chronicles the life of a woman who is addicted to sex.
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Damir Ovcina‘s novel forces the reader to bear witness to the Bosnian genocide.
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German historian Uffa Jensen traces the early stages of psychoanalysis as it travelled between continents.
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Reni Eddo-Lodge explores how we talk about skin colour – and how we should.
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Italian poet Federico Italiano has created a volume of poetry called “Grand Tour”, which brings together the young European poetry scene. In an interview, he explains what the generation of writers have in common and the surprises he found along the way.
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In his novel "The Overstory," shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Richard Powers interweaves his characters like roots on a forest floor - and joins them to fight for the rights of trees.
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In her book, “The Future is History”, author Masha Gessen shows us an oppressive vision of Russia, a country that has been unable to reclaim its soul after the end of the Soviet Union. Her semi-factual novel, based on various interviews and reports, tells the personal tales of three generations and at the same time acts as a pyscho-social analysis of the Soviet legacy.
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Authors Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore describe how we arrived in the ‘Capitalocene’ era – and how we can leave it too.
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What does it mean to be seen as a stranger in your own country? In two novels, the authors John Okada and Min Jin Lee answer that question in diverse and fascinating ways.
morePoorest nation, richest nation (Issue III+IV/2018)
Homosexuality remains a big taboo in Nigeria. With her lesbian love story Chinelo Okparanta chips away at prejudice.
morePoorest nation, richest nation (Issue III+IV/2018)
Their parents were reticent but now the children and grandchildren of immigrants to Germany want to have their say. In his book, The Integration Paradox, author Aladin El-Mafaalani describes the conflicts that ensue - and why this could be a good sign.
morePoorest nation, richest nation (Issue III+IV/2018)
So many people are increasingly speaking in the name of "We" in public. The French philosopher Tristan Garcia discusses how these identities of the "We" can be reconciled.
morePoorest nation, richest nation (Issue III+IV/2018)
In "The First Garment" Guram Dochanashvili describes life in times of political tyranny.
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From the epistolary novel to Rilke’s shorthand for modern dedication to art: Literature professor Sandra Richter explores how German-language literature is seen, and how it spreads, on the world stage.
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Science fiction, eco-thriller, voodoo grotesque: writer and musician Rita Indiana sends her characters on wild trips, not to mention travelling in time.
moreEarth, how are you doing? (Issue I/2018)
In his book “Stamped from the Beginning”, Ibram X. Kendi shows how stereotypes of Afro-Americans are instrumentalized in politics.
moreUne Grande Nation (Issue IV/2017)
Modern technology makes it possible to measure and track wildlife better than ever before. James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti have published a book of beautiful maps based on this – but along the way, they seem to have lost sight of animal welfare.
moreUne Grande Nation (Issue IV/2017)
In her autobiography, the filmmaker and author describes growing up in the Chinese countryside and making her way as an immigrant in England.
moreUne Grande Nation (Issue IV/2017)
Even if we don’t mean to, our own well-established patterns of perception will make us discriminate. Behavioural economist Iris Bohnet has some solutions to this self-sabotage.
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The poignant debut novel by Anuk Arudpragasam recalls the turmoil of civil war in Sri Lanka.
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