Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft is a novel of quiet ruptures: shattered dreams and a future slipping through the hands of those who need it most. Our review looks at how Gurnah captures change without spectacle — and why that makes his work so powerful. #booksky #africa literatur.review/en/reviews/f...

Now on Literatur.Review: Alia Mamdouh’s The Presence of the Absent Man – the first Arabic story to openly address female same-sex desire. A feverish, courageous text about loneliness, the body, longing, and a woman who begins to go her own way... #booksky #arabic literatur.review/en/literatur...

With “Black”, Literatur.Review publishes a powerful new poem by Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, one of the leading voices of decolonial feminism. Her text is a raw cry against the historical burden inscribed on Black bodies... #booksky #poetry #feminism #colonialism #black literatur.review/en/literatur...

UN Resolution 2797(2025) barely made Western headlines — yet the conflict’s linguistic dimension is crucial. Maja Zwick shows how Spanish in Western Sahara became a tool of anti-colonial resistance, shaped by Cuban solidarity, the Cubarawis and Hassaniya... literatur.review/en/essay/dom... #booksky

The Arabic original was published last year, and now Iman Humaydan’s ‘Chansons pour les ténèbres’ has finally been published in French by Verticales/Gallimard. If you need a recommendation, please read our review by Samir El-Youssef. #booksky #arabliterature #lebanon literatur.review/fr/critiques...

Arturo Soto’s Border Documents turns the US-Mexico border into a landscape of memory - quiet, intimate, and far from political clichés. A photobook that resists reductive narratives and restores the humanity behind the headlines... #booksky #ArtPhotograph literatur.review/en/reviews/n...

How do we understand China—truly? Our review of Romain Graziani’s ‘Les Lois et les Nombres’ explains why a sober, nuanced perspective is more urgent than ever... #booksky #ChinaStudies #ChinaPolitics #ChinaAnalysis #china #InternationalRelations #EUChinaRelations literatur.review/en/reviews/n...

In a riveting interview, Shafā’ath-Ahmad Khān opens up about living under apartheid, creating banned plays, and the enduring fight for racial equality through art. Explore how theatre becomes resistance, and how #SouthAfrica ’s story is still being written. #booksky literatur.review/en/interview...

In his haunting autofiction ‚I deliver parcels in Beijing‘, Hu Anyan exposes the grim reality of China’s platform economy: 12-hour shifts, one parcel every four minutes, no breaks, no mercy. More than a novel, it’s a systemic nightmare told from the inside. #booksky literatur.review/en/reviews/f...

Starting tomorrow on Netflix: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein isn’t a remake — it’s a liturgy of Shelley’s myth, and a poetic meditation on storytelling... literatur.review/en/reviews/f... #Frankenstein #GuillermoDelToro #MaryShelley #Netflix #Film #Cinema #Adaptation #Gothic #Storytelling

“People die twice — once in the grave, and once when forgotten.” A powerful #GraphicNovel on Spain’s silenced dead and the weight of memory... #booksky #GraphicNovel #History #Remembrance #FrancoDictatorship #Spain #HumanRights #MemoryCulture #Comic #ArtAndResistance literatur.review/en/reviews/c...

A taciturn and mysterious stranger with no past appears in a village...This month's short story by Jana elHassan is a masterfully told parable about projection, fear, and the need to give a name to the incomprehensible... #booksky #arabicliterature #lebanon literatur.review/en/literatur...

In Tan Twan Eng's third novel, memory is closely linked to literature, colonial history to inner longing: his work ‘The House of Doors’ takes a seemingly inconspicuous wife in #malaysia as its starting point — and congenially broadens its view... literatur.review/en/reviews/f... #booksky

“In a prison of 280 ideological inmates, Tuesday becomes our happiest day.” In his evocative essay, Menaf Othman reflects on waiting, visitations, identity and invisibility. A Kurdish-Syrian voice you’ll want to hear... #booksky #kurdish #turkey #prison #essay #syria literatur.review/en/essay/tue...

Adaption or resistance? Three German novels – The Loyal Subject, Darkness at Noon, Flight to Afar – show how relevant questions of ideology, power and morality remain today. How much courage does literature require today? literatur.review/en/literatur... #Essay #Power #Freedom #Zeitgeist #booksky

Final podcast: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Cecilia Manguerra Brainard — Cebu-born, California-based — about her origins, language, and writing between two worlds... #booksky literatur.review/en/podcast/b...

Podcast: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Ronaldo S. Vivo Jr. — author, musician, and filmmaker — about his acclaimed Dreamland trilogy and much more... #booksky #filipino literatur.review/en/podcast/w...

Podcast Special: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr meets Kristian Sendon Cordero, writer, filmmaker, and cultural activist in Naga City, Bikol... #booksky #philippineliterature #bikol #bicol literatur.review/en/podcast/k...

Podcast Special: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Cesar Gumba — artist and storyteller — who lives and works in his fairytale house at the foot of Mount Iriga... #booksky literatur.review/en/podcast/s...

LR Podcast Special | Philippines @ Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr meets Frank V. Peñones Jr. — a key figure in the ongoing literary renaissance of Bikol. #booksky #philippineliterature

Podcast Special: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Michael Beltran — Filipino journalist and author — about his book on communist leader José Maria Sison (Joma)... #booksky literatur.review/en/podcast/s...

We are certain that Sumaiyah Muhammad Salisu, will be present at one of the Frankfurt Book Fairs in the near future. In our extensive interview, she discusses her coming of age and shares some good and bad truths... #booksky #nigeria #islam #africanliterature literatur.review/en/interview...

In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Chuckberry Pascual about his stories, where Filipino myth and political reality intertwine. #booksky #philippines literatur.review/en/podcast/s...

#Podcast: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Allan Derain — writer and university lecturer — about the revival of ancient Philippine myths in a time of climate change. literatur.review/en/podcast/m... #booksky

LR Podcast Special | Philippines @ Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Jessica Zafra — acclaimed Filipino author and journalist.... #booksky #philippines literatur.review/en/podcast/i...

Just in time for today’s opening ceremony of the Frankfurt Book Fair, with the Philippines as guest of honour, we are publishing a short story by Filipino diaspora author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard... #booksky #philippines #shortstory #frankfurterbuchmesse literatur.review/en/literatur...

Podcast: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr talks with Angeli E. Dumatol — doctor, author, and member of the #RomanceClass community.... literatur.review/en/podcast/h... #booksky #philippines #philippineliterature

LR Podcast Special | Philippines @ Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr sits down with Katrina F. Olan — Filipino author, comic artist, and copywriter... #booksky literatur.review/en/podcast/w...

Podcast Special: In celebration of the Philippines’ Guest of Honour appearance at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, Axel Timo Purr meets Bebang Siy — Filipino author and cultural manager and author of the groundbreaking book "It’s a Men’s World..." #booksky #philippines literatur.review/en/podcast/i...

On the occasion of the #Philippines guest appearance at #FBM25, Axel Timo Purr travels through a country between myth, megacity and literature. About language, self-determination and the power of storytelling... literatur.review/en/report/li... #FrankfurtBookFair #PhilippineLiterature #booksky

The first part of our special feature on the Frankfurter Buchmesse, which starts on 15 October and will feature the Philippines as guest of honour, is a video of a panel discussion with three female writers from the Bikol region... #booksky #philippines #bikol literatur.review/en/videocast...

Our poetess of the month is Aya Gamal Mohey Eldeen from Egypt, who has sent us a wonderful, lucid poem entitled 'The blood of the gazelle'... (Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish) literatur.review/en/reviews/p... #booksky #egypt #arabicliterature #poem #poetry

Our short story of the month comes from Texaco La Tsiémé in Brazzaville. It is a tender yet cruel coming-of-age story by Ollier Lemvo Dondedieu Richtel, who currently resides in Geneva... literatur.review/en/literatur... #booksky #congo #africanliterature #africanbooks #brazzaville #shortstory

Caroline Hau's emotionally charged and intelligent novel 'Tiempo Muerto' has finally been translated into German. Hau complexly recounts the tragedy of reproduced colonial conditions and symbiotic hierarchies, not only in Philippine society... #philippines literatur.review/en/reviews/f...

We are delighted to publish the winner of the Michel Kilo Prize for Political Essays: Omar Alhadi’s magnificent text on the sobering effect of social media in Syria and the increasing loss of identity of an entire society... #booksky #syria #arabicliterature literatur.review/en/essay/fea...

Following the Arabic original and the English translation, the German translation of Deena Mohamed's graphic novel masterpiece, Shubeik Lubeik, has now been released. In his glowing review, Winfried Weiser explains why this comic is such an enjoyable read... #booksky literatur.review/en/reviews/c...

In a beautiful and poetic essay, physicist and filmmaker Peter Baranowski rereads Thomas S. Kuhn's masterpiece, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", and reflects on Kuhn's relevance today, cinema, and the AI age of revolutions... #booksky #philosophy literatur.review/en/essay/thr...

Richard Reid, a professor of African History, fills an important gap. In his book "The African Revolution" he describes how Africa was already changing before European takeover... #booksky #africa #africanhistory #history#colonialism literatur.review/en/reviews/n...

Sari Hanafi, professor at the American University of Beirut writes about Didier Fassin’s ‚Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza‘ and how Fassin applies the lens of anthropology’s moral turn... #booksky #gaza #didierfassin #sarihanafi literatur.review/en/reviews/n...

After our special month of short stories, we return to normal life with an interview by Mbizo WaChirasha. He spoke with Megha Sood, an award-winning Asian American poet, author, editor, and literary activist from New Jersey, about her work and her new book. #booksky literatur.review/en/interview...

We started our August Short Story Special with a story from the Philippines, and, since the Philippines are the guest of honour at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, we will end it with another. #booksky #philippineliterature #jessicazafra literatur.review/en/literatur...

Following our story about suicide in Vietnam, we have another story on this topic. Axel Timo Purr, editor and author at Literatur.Review, shares with us a true story from the Bavarian Alps about a hut keeper who has had enough of the modern world... #booksky literatur.review/en/literatur...

We are delighted to present a poignant and captivating story by Phan Thúy Hà, a Vietnamese writer and one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Vietnamese creative non-fiction... literatur.review/en/literatur... (Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish) #booksky #vietnam

Today, we are sharing a story from Harare by Makhosini Mpofu who is a Zimbabwean writer. It's about identity, the struggle for it, and, of course, the curse called hope... #booksky #africanliterature #zimbabwe (Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish) literatur.review/en/literatur...

We are very pleased to share a short story by Syrian writer Rami Tawil. Passages from „The Wall“ remind us of Kafka’s shortest texts. However, Tawil has his very own unique writing style... #booksky #arabicliterature #syria #syrianliterature #shortstory #kafka literatur.review/en/literatur...

María Ignacia Schulz shares with us ‚Raíces’ (Roots), an intimate and reflective story that explores the existential condition of ‚identity limbo’: not being completely from here or there, but also not simply ‚between’ two places... #columbia #germany #booksky literatur.review/en/literatur...

Today’s short story is by Melara Mvogdobo. The author, who has roots in Switzerland and Cameroon, first came to our attention earlier this year with her wonderful novel ‘Grandmothers'. We are therefore all the more delighted to present this new story... #booksky literatur.review/en/literatur...

The second short story in our summer special is by Yemeni author Nadia Alkowkabani and deals with masculine rituals surrounding defloration... (Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish) #booksky #arabicliterature #yemen literatur.review/en/literatur...

We are starting our summer of short stories with a powerful and ambivalent coming-of-age story set at the time of Marcos Sr.‘s declaration of martial law. Kristian Sendon Cordero, the author, runs a popular community bookshop in Naga City... #booksky #philippines literatur.review/en/literatur...

After reading Tajimara: There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around – an essay by Rodolfo Lara Mendoza... literatur.review/en/essay/aft... (Available in Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish) #booksky #latinamerica #latinamericanliterature