Tag: fiction
Michael Lentz: Your childhood should be more beautiful
In Michael Lentz’s novel “Homeward” the narrator rebuilds his parents’ house – as a place of longing. source site
stern bestsellers in February 2024: non-fiction and fiction
The new one appears every week star with current bestsellers: We also present the books reviewed in the print edition online to you once a month. It is somewhat surprising…
Elias Hirschl’s “Content”: The Messenger of Carnage – Culture
One of the beautiful wonders of Elias Hirschl’s writing is how skillfully he mixes hybrid moods, how he manages to blend the sad with the murderous. The result is not…
stern bestsellers in January 2024: non-fiction and fiction
The new one appears every week star with current bestsellers: We also present the books reviewed in the print edition online to you once a month. It is somewhat surprising…
Science fiction adventure: Reports: Universal is planning a new “Jurassic World” film
Science fiction adventure Reports: Universal is planning a new “Jurassic World” film Will the dinosaurs return to the big screen soon? This would certainly please millions of fans of the…
How Joachim Lafosse transformed a grim news story into poignant fiction
Between Joachim Lafosse and the news items, the love story is not new. HAS to lose one’s mind set the tone with the harsh way in which the director immerses…
Emma Braslavsky novel “Earthling”. Review: “Find Sahra.” – Culture
Sahra Wagenknecht is founding a party in Berlin this Monday, but in Emma Braslavsky’s novel “Erdling” she is kidnapped, presumably by aliens. What else is happening? Everything. We begin at…
Ludwig II: The “Kini” between facts and fiction – Bavaria
Although hundreds of books have been written about King Ludwig II, there are still many secrets and speculations surrounding this person. In a slim volume, the historian Marcus Spangenberg has…
Wars, AI, climate catastrophes… What if we opened gaps with positive science fiction
Dictatorships, climate disasters, AI, epidemics, famines, cloning… Dystopian stories have invaded the imagination. And with anxiety-inducing news, we have the impression that reality is going to catch up with fiction.…
New novel by Bernhard Schlink “Late Life”: What death teaches us – culture
In this novel, Bernhard Schlink varies the motif used by Michel de Montaigne in his first essay: To philosophize is to learn to die. The late sixteenth-century French philosopher was…