Tag: literature
Bookstores are looking for successors: a visit to the Proust bookstore in Essen – Culture
It’s been around four years since Beate Scherzer and Peter Kolling sat down and decided: “We’re selling our bookstore.” They wanted to take a lot of time to slowly get…
Leipzig: Book Fair: Stars from literature and entertainment come
Leipzig Book fair: stars from literature and entertainment come Many stars of the scene are expected at the Leipzig Book Fair this year. photo © Hendrik Schmidt/dpa At the Leipzig…
70 years of Pixi Book: Small book, big feelings – culture
Great love for Janosch’s little monkey, fierce anger at Leo Lausemaus – the Pixi book is 70 years old. SZ editors about the little book that they will never forget.…
Classic by Michael Ende: Publisher deletes N-word from “Jim Knopf” – culture
On Saturday, revised, colored new editions of Michael Ende’s children’s books “Jim Knopf and Lukas the Locomotive Driver” and “Jim Knopf and the Wilde 13” will be published by Thienemann-Verlag…
“Radka”: The new novel by Johano Strasser – Munich
In his novel “Radka” Johano Strasser tells of a village community that has learned to look the other way in order to be able to live together. She was found…
Rüdiger Safranski on Franz Kafka: “Writing about his life” – Culture
One of the most likeable quirks of the late great critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki was that he occasionally remarked: “You shouldn’t use the name Kafka in your mouth.” Now we see…
Jonathan Lethem’s futuristic novel “The Standstill”: No more bananas and Rihanna – culture
Jonathan Lethem’s novel “The Standstill” makes a dream come true for everyone who wants to finally switch off. And the end of the world turns out to be endless fun.…
Alia Trabucco Zerán: “My name is Estela” – Culture
A fed-up family, a servant, a mysterious death – and the question of whether we really have the prejudices that Alia Trabucco Zerán wants to show us with her novel…
Joy Williams’ novel “In Grace” – Culture
Two years ago she was still from for him new Yorker active literary critic Parul Sehgal once a big criticism of the “trauma plot” that is omnipresent in literature, cinema…
Anti-Semitism and language – about Jews and white supremacy – culture
When a Hannah Arendt reading recently had to be canceled at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin because activists made the event impossible, a slogan could be heard that has already…