The French writer Olivier Guez made his international breakthrough with The disappearance of Josef Mengele, a historical novel about the Auschwitz doctor's life as a fugitive. The book won the 2017 Pr...

The Malaysian author Tash Aw has been marked as a name to watch in literary circles for some time now. Due to his pronounced political commitment he is often compared to his good friend Édouard Louis....

The body is determining for our identity, but at the same time it is subject to control, by others and by society. Our conceptions of race and gender, for example, acquire form through the body. With ...

Eric Andersen is a name often mentioned in the same breath as such famous contemporaries as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and is one of the most poetic voices to come out of the United States. The legen...

Exactly 30 years ago the communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu was ousted from power. The Romanian writers Gabriela Adameşteanu, Mircea Cărtărescu, Ioana Pârvulescu and Cătălin Pavel were aged respecti...