Families fuel literary inspiration like no other subject. Which youngster hasn’t come into conflict with parent’s values and expectations? Which couple has lived happily ever after without arguments? ...

David Lopez’s suburban novel FIEF incorporates everything that this material calls for: boxers, rappers, plenty of drugs and a little Voltaire. This turns into a sensitive mixture that has hit a ...

Dies ist das zentrale Gedicht des Hauptzyklus (“Kapitalismus”) im neuesten Gedichtband von Petar Matović (*1978, Užice), der unter dem Titel Iz srećne republike (Aus der glücklichen Republik) vom ...

Simone Hirth’s debut novel “Lied über die geeignete Stelle für eine Notunterkunft” is a particularly eye-catching contribution

In January, when Joachim Schnerf published his novel “Cette nuit” – about Salomon, a Holocaust survivor, who must celebrate Jewish Passover for the first time without his late wife, Sarah – nobody ...

How do war, displacement and dislocation change a person? How can someone gain a foothold again where he has arrived now? What remains, what plays on one’s mind and what can never be forgotten again? ...

The skyscraper as a microcosm: In “The Skyscraper. 102 Storeys of Life” German comic book writer Katharina Greve introduces one of the most original comics of the year.

Some books slip through the back door into their readers’ minds. Some books don’t need to make showy, grand gestures, or to demonstrate their authors’ skill on every page...

Iliya Troyanov was born in Sofia in 1965. Aged six, he and his family fled to Germany where they were granted political asylum. Their journey was the start of a life in many different places: with ...

Imre Oravecz’s third volume of his trilogy A rög gyermekei (Die Kinder der Scholle) has concluded an enterprise that continued for over twenty years. Although the first part of this trilogy was only ...