Tag: literature
Eva Mueller: "disk kid": A life as Assitussi
Classicism in comics: “Scheiblettenkind” by Eva Müller tells of a youth without money and without books. source site
audiobook "expulsion of the spirit": Broken Biographies
The edition “Expulsion of the Spirit” presents three dozen conversations with intellectuals and scientists who fled Germany from the National Socialists. source site
Travel book “Overland” – Media – SZ.de
“It could be catastrophic,” says Moth to his wife. Both of them are only too aware of that. The Cape Wrath Trail in northern Scotland is considered the toughest and…
Dinçer Güçyeter: “Our Germany Fairy Tale”. Review. – Culture
When Dinçer Güçyeter was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize for “My Prince, I Am the Ghetto” in May, something unusual happened: people cried. They vowed to go through life together…
Illustrated books for the festival: Romance for the present
From virtual landscapes, the sovereignty of fashion to the bling bling of the superstars: opulent image worlds in book format that you can even give away. source site
Isabel Fargo Cole: "The Gold Coast": lies of the ancestors
A work of art: Isabel Fargo Cole’s brilliant essay “The Gold Coast” combines travel narrative, anthropology and reflections on climate. source site
Lauren Groff “Matrix”: Isle of Women – Culture
Of Juliana Liebert What do you think of when you hear the words medieval, monastery and Roman? Right, to Umberto Eco. With her novel “The Matrix”, however, the American author…
Mariette Navarro: "across the sea": The captain
Get out once: Mariette Navarro’s charismatic novel “Über die See”. source site
Alain Claude Sulzer: "double life": sense and feeling
Alain Claude Sulzer writes about the Goncourt brothers in “Double Life”: a touching meditation on knowledge and repression. source site
Orlando Figes: “A History of Russia” – Culture
Of Gustav Seibt Conditions in the army were surprisingly bad. There had been hopes for a “Russian steamroller”, but it turned out that the masses of soldiers who had been…