Tag: essays
Olivier Guez’s Football Essays “In Praise of Dribbling” – A Review – Culture
Lionel Messi did magic again: In the World Cup semi-final against Croatia he stormed in his incomparable way towards the opposing goal, hit hooks, accelerated, stopped, looked up briefly, passed…
Rachel Kushner’s collection of essays “Hard People” – Culture
In her collection of essays “Hard People” Rachel Kushner only cries once. They are tears of relief, and even for this admission she is ashamed. In the “Cabo 1000” motorcycle…
Brianna Wiest: “101 Essays” – trivial everyday wisdom – culture
“101 Essays That Will Change Your Life” is the bestselling guide of the year. However, many of the findings in it are not just trivial, everyday wisdom, but simply wrong.…
Brianna Wiest: “101 Essays” – Culture
In the first episode of the British comedy series “Black Books”, Manny, one of the three main characters, swallows a self-help book. Admittedly, a very small self-help book – the…
New Essays by Rachel Cusk – Culture
If one would like to introduce Rachel Cusk’s literary sound with a brief sample, this is it: “Occasionally, and due to actual or hypothetical misconduct, my mother and father no…
New Essays on Lust and Shame – Culture
Writing is difficult, there are a lot of risks, especially when you write poetry, as a woman, about love. Lea Schneider, known as a poet and translator – she has…
On his 80th birthday: Wolfgang Hilbig in essays, speeches, interviews. – Culture
At some point towards the end of the 1990s, writes Wolfgang Hilbig in an essay, he broke into one of the closed industrial plants where he had worked during the…
Review of Salman Rushdie’s volume of essays “Languages of Truth” – Culture
In the new collection of essays, Salman Rushdies, you immerse yourself in the cosmos from which this truly polyglot British author draws his stories: It is the Asian continent, which…