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Why does it feel so difficult to throw books away?

Posted by Sam Sedgman | | filed under: ,

After recently moving house, and being confronted box by box with just how much stuff I seem to own, I found no trouble in joyfully throwing plenty of it away. But not my books. Though I threw out ...

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The Stuffed Barbarian/ Kitömött barbár

Posted by Ágnes Orzóy | | filed under: ,

In Claude Berri’s film Jean de Florette, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, a city-dweller inherits a plot of land in fabulous Provence. Jean, played by Gérard Dépardieu, moves there with his wife ...

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Sweden and the ebook/ Schweden und das E-Book

Posted by Karina Boehm | | filed under: ,

A gradual approach to the digital reader age.

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EURO STARS: The Rock Stars of European Literature

Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | | filed under: ,

I do like a challenge. After all, I promote European literature in the UK!

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Literary criticism and the content of literature/ Die Literaturkritik und die Inhalte der Literatur

Posted by Rainer Moritz | | filed under: ,

In literature things are stated in such a special way that – to sum it up with a simple phrase – they cannot be re-translated one to one into our everyday language.

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Hungarian Literature Online (blog in English and Hungarian)

Posted by Ágnes Orzóy | | filed under: ,

In 2004―that is, in ancient times, when online literary magazines were a relatively new phenomenon―I was working for the first Hungarian literary website, litera.hu. Litera pioneered a wholly new ...

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ELit Dossier January to March/ Jänner bis März 2015

Posted by Walter Grond |

In addition to reviews, trends and discussions about European literature, the ELit Observatory for European contemporary literature 2015 focuses on two areas of special interest – “Innovations in the ...

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Is poetry the winner?/ Lyrik gewinnt?

Posted by Beat Mazenauer | | filed under: ,

The surprise was universal. Nominations for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize already left a lot of people wondering about a poetry volume being shortlisted among the year’s top five books. Now, precisely ...

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Which books are hits on the web/ Welche Bücher das Web bewegen

Posted by Henning Kornfeld | | filed under: ,

The American doctor William Davis wouldn’t touch bread, biscuits or pizza with a barge pole: his mantra is that wheat is unhealthy and makes you fat. Davis’s message resonates in Germany: this ...

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