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      <description><![CDATA[ In Glass Splinters in the Throat, Tunisian poet Hajer Requiq turns family pain into unforgettable poetry—sharp, intimate, and devastatingly precise.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Comic: Beuys don't cry | Lenz Mosbacher]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Joseph Beuys as a graphic novel: not a conventional biography, but a bold exploration of myth, memory, fiction, and art. Christoph Becker reviews Lenz Mosbacher’s comic.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: George Orwell | Radical, honest, incorruptible]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[George Orwell was more than 1984 and Animal Farm. His As I Please columns from the 1940s tackle propaganda, ideology, media alarmism and social division...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: My Grandfather Hussein | Menaf Othman | Rojava]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As Eid al-Adha approaches, Literatur.Review publishes Menaf Othman’s heartbreaking story “My Grandfather Hussein” from Rojava — because feasts are not for everyone...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Portrait: Ana Castillo Muñoz | Puzzle | Puerto Rico]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What if poetry could rebuild what migration, death, and silence have torn apart? María Ignacia Schulz on Puerto Rican poet Ana Castillo Muñoz...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Umbral: The singularity of the absurd | Bruno Elías Maduro]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In his UMBRAL column, Colombian philosopher Bruno Elías Maduro questions science as a new secular dogma, explores illusion, doubt & the fragile limits of human knowledge.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Su Chang's 'The Immortal Woman' | Memory as resistance]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Still confused about what the Trump–Xi summit was really about? Read Su Chang’s The Immortal Woman. A novel on memory, repression, nationalism, diaspora trauma and China.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Can literature recognise collapse before politics does?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Can literature detect collapse before society sees it? Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi reads Yemen through Siegfried Kracauer, Abdullah Al-Baradouni, and contemporary fiction...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Umm Al-Duwais | Hamid Oqabi | Yemen]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What if the monster is beauty itself? In “Umm Al-Duwais” Yemeni writer Hamid Oqabi transforms a legendary Gulf jinn into a hypnotic story about desire, death & seduction.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Column: The pen that makes thrones tremble | Victor Hugo]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Victor Hugo fought Napoleon III not with weapons, but with language, conscience, and moral courage. Abil Hasanov’s new column reminds us why tyrants fear writers...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: “The best version of us is WE” | Mthulisi Ndlovu]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mthulisi Ndlovu reclaims #Ubuntu as a universal ethics against fragmentation, violence, and hyper-individualism...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Portrait: The master of water | Ahmad Aboukhnegar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A forgotten master of magical realism: Ahmad Aboukhnegar’s desert tales are rich, poetic, and haunting. Khaled Osman on why this Egyptian writer deserves rediscovery...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Russian poems on the war against Ukraine | Elena Balzamo]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[16 Russian poets confront conscience in wartime. In 'Examen de conscience', edited by Elena Balzamo, poetry becomes a space for guilt, memory, and resistance...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: When the war is over, I’ll make you a bigger bed...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today is World Book Day, and to celebrate, we’re sharing Duna Ghali’s short story set in wartime Iraq, where love provides fragile shelter...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Portrait: Dana Grigorcea & Perikles Monioudis]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[They are among the most distinguished, productive and charming writers in the German-speaking world - and they are a couple: Dana Grigorcea and Perikles Monioudis]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Dorothee Elmiger | Die Holländerinnen (The Dutch Women) ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A prize-winning novel that refuses to be one: this close reading of ‚Die Holländerinnen‘ (The Dutch women) by Dorothee Elmiger explores colonialism & the Anthropocene...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Novelty as a gateway to fiction | Bruno Maduro | Colombia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Is “the new” truly new—or a market illusion? In 'Novelty as a Gateway to Fiction', philosopher Bruno Elías Maduro shows how capitalism feeds on our craving for novelty.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Can populism save democracy — or is that the wrong question altogether? Christoph Nick challenges Jörg Baberowski’s Am Volk vorbei (Bypassing the people)...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview: "Culture isn’t cosmetic" | Roselie Vasquez-Yetter]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Roselie Vasquez-Yetter (PartnersGlobal) in a wide-ranging conversation with Mbizo Chirasha on democracy under pressure, global authoritarian patterns & why culture counts]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: The Coming Storm | World War III | Odd Arne Westad]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Could a world war erupt—even if no one wants it? Odd Arne Westad argues in The Coming Storm that fear, power shifts, and human decisions—not inevitability—drive history. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: The possibility of a future | Iryn Tushabe | Uganda]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In 'Everything Is Fine Here', Iryn Tushabe explores queer identity, religious power, and political violence in Uganda. A novel where writing becomes resistance...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Seven square meters | Adam Mouchtar | Bruxelles]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Seven square meters. No escape. Only perception. Adam Mouchtar, an insider in European politics, writes about power, control—and the question that becomes dangerous...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Language in Pain | Badia Kashgari | Saudi Arabia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Coffins of Silence, Badia Kashgari writes pain without spectacle where exile fractures identity, yet memory refuses to die. A precise reading by Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Scholastique Mukasonga | Sister Deborah]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mission, messiah, power: Mukasonga’s 'Sister Deborah' uncovers how evangelical visions and colonial rule shaped social and political orders—then and now...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Column: From Siddhartha’s river to the howl of the Steppenwolf]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From Siddhartha to the Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse maps the path through our inner abyss—toward freedom. Abil Hasanov on why truth must be lived, not learned.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Film: Project Hail Mary | From bestseller to blockbuster ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From Robinsonade to blockbuster: ‚Project Hail Mary ‚swaps science for speed, precision for emotion. What’s lost—and what remains—when Weir hits Hollywood?]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/9111347c-6e71-4901-bae8-3a058eba8255</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Cursed Daughters | Oyinkan Braithwaite | Nigeria]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In ‚Cursed Daughters“, Oyinkan Braithwaite traces a haunting family legacy across generations in Lagos. Fritz Freithoff on myth, memory, and self-empowerment...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/28c6b406-6583-4b64-9e49-1fcd6caf11b8</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: Ramadan, then and now | A journey through Aden (Yemen)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From the lively Ramadan nights of Aden in 2001 to the heavy realities of today’s Yemen: Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi reflects on memory, poverty, friendship, and fragile hope...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/21091244-b625-4962-a23f-090bbac81550</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Portrait: Crime fiction and multiculturalism | Moritz Föllmer]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Bradford as crime-fiction landscape: A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir write about migration, identity, and tensions within Britain’s Muslim-British-Asian communities...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b941e385-98fb-4719-a888-7f6998bf655b</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Apocalypse 2.0 | José Miguel Garcia León]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[War, climate shocks, pandemics, collapsing empires. In Apocalypse 2.0, José Miguel Garcia León revisits the catastrophic centuries from Justinian to the Abbasid Caliphate]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/74f8884c-3ecf-4fac-b225-f3cec8fd3cdc</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview: “Zimbabwe is my muse” | Cynthia Marangwanda]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Poet and cultural activist Cynthia Marangwanda from Zimbabwe speaks with Mbizo Chirasha about writing as a essential tool to understand life and ancestral heritage...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/44ae0955-ac57-4460-b2ef-405c638d62ff</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: The West is dead. Long live the West?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our review of The West (Josephine Quinn) and The West (Georgios Varouxakis) explores the long intellectual history behind the concept...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/a2a254be-e85c-4689-90d9-0707c8dd089c</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: The Situation | Jakub Stachowiak | Iceland]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For the final story of our Short Story Month, we move from Saudi Arabia to Iceland. In The Situation, Jakub Stachowiak crafts a precise, unsettling reflection on memory.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/f9158eae-e2d2-448b-b64f-62ca8003cb02</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Behind the Glasses | Yousef Al-Mohaimeed | Saudi Arabia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Two sharp, unsettling short stories from Saudi Arabia by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed. In Behind the Glasses, illusion meets inheritance: Prada frames, a vanished store and more.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/2ea9cbc2-a84e-488f-a9c7-224dd67178ca</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Lit: Fragments of Hope in Failing Light | Dunya Yousufzai | Kabul]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Kabul-based writer Dunya Yousufzai writes from within the fracture — echoing Leonard Cohen’s line that “there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/16738ade-41a6-4bf6-81c6-51b7c665e405</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: The mother of the house | Urun Kuhzod | Tajikistan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As part of our Short Story Month, we feature “The Mother of the House” — a haunting story by one of Tajikistan’s most renowned authors...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/038c1391-5b80-464f-bcc0-f28e6119209c</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Under the silence of gold | Mi Ravao | Madagascar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Under The Silence Of Gold, Madagascan author Mi Ravao delivers a sharply political text on the merciless exploitation of land and people...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/a1d944cf-36af-4823-a0b4-493f9911e6a3</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Foreigner | Ausländer | Al Joseph Lumen | Philippines]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are proud to publish autofictional texts by Philippine authour Al Joseph Lumen, drawn from his work in a German nursing home...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/238f8ce9-eb2c-4c41-afac-e029d9df461c</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: The Functionary’s Story by Leonardo Garzaro (Brazil)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A Functionary’s Story by Brazilian author Leonardo Garzaro explores how economic structures shape personal identity in a globalized world...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/1d6aa3a8-a43e-47fe-938e-db8829f79637</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Khemji – An Indian Tragedy by Waseem Hussain (Schweiz)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are kicking off our biannual month of exclusively short stories with ‘Khemji – An Indian Tragedy’ by Waseem Hussain...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/6ca457d8-0558-48b9-b449-7b2c316edebd</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: A street through a wall | Ali Al Hazmi (Saudi Arabia)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Five poems from Saudi Arabia by Ali Al Hazmi: loss, desire, exile, the sea as memory and threat. A street through a wall — powerful contemporary Arabic poetry...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/a4265937-6519-4272-8661-4c2dc0ce9a45</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview: "Life is already difficult enough" | Ahmed A. M. Ramadan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Egyptian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on absurdity, fantasy, writing under pressure, and why literature can never fully escape reality...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/2e91570f-eb83-4597-a39a-5f1f75bedc22</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Trevor Noah & Sabina Hahn | Into the Uncut Grass]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A boy, a teddy bear, and a quiet escape into the tall grass. ‚Into the Uncut Grass‘ by Trevor Noah & Sabina Hahn is a gentle fable about decisions, freedom, and finding.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d151c197-6092-42d9-8844-3e5b406745d7</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: On the present state of Moroccan literature by M. Khalfouf]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Is Moroccan literature really marginal — or radically plural? In this essay, Mohamed Khalfouf explores canon formation, multilingualism and literary renewal...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/4d3193ae-c2ad-4f4b-98a0-b864176b1906</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: „Hitler was a leftist“ | „Hitler war ein Linker“]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[„Hitler was a leftist“: In „Das Deutsche Demokratische Reich“ (The German Democratic Reich), historian Volker Weiß shows how right-wing politics is made possible today...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/51ca39f9-9114-4dcc-8901-fafba8096912</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction:  Martin R. Deans "Tabak und Schokolade"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Martin R. Dean’s ‚Takak und Schokolade‘ confronts colonial amnesia with a transcontinental family narrative.  A powerful literary journey...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/a3717088-30d3-435d-afad-628189607e7a</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: 'Bound to Violence" by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What happens when a once-controversial novel re-emerges as a Penguin Modern Classic? Especially when it is Bound to Violence by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/5c7a772a-faa6-40d9-a5c9-5c27edd66a3c</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Hannes Wesendonks "Der Typ mit den getönten Gläsern"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In den Gedichten von Hannes Wesendonk gibt es keine lyrische Hausapotheke, sondern ein bunter Teller aus Alltag, Lakonie und Brüchen. Offen, direkt, ohne Rezepturen...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/defd9134-37e0-48fa-a2ed-65c7536e5d07</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Two poems by Loiq Scherali from Tajikistan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Between the visible world and what lies just beyond it,  Algerian Ghizlan Touati  writes in  “In the World and Beyond…” with precision and quiet intensity...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: 'In the world and beyond' by Algerian Ghizlan Touati]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Between the visible world and what lies just beyond it,  Algerian Ghizlan Touati  writes in  “In the World and Beyond…” with precision and quiet intensity...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Children's Book: Shaw Kuzki | Hiroshima in three spellings]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "Soul Lanterns", Shaw Kuzki shows how memories are passed down through generations and change over time...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Essay: A Hindu festival called Christmas by Kiran Nagarkar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The classic Literatur.Review Christmas story is here: A Hindu Festival Called Christmas by Kiran Nagarkar, one of India’s most significant writers...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview: Halldór Guðmundsson, Halldór Laxness & the Global South]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Re-reading Halldór Laxness between the Global North & South. Biographer Halldór Guðmundsson in conversation with Axel Timo Purr on colonialism, poverty and nature...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: India - Only the most populous country in the world?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India is now the world’s most populous country – but what does that really mean?Our review of 'Vishwa Shastra' shows why India’s history, strategy and global role matter.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: African theatre versus Western classics]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How do African theatre makers engage with Western classics today? Tunisian writer Hamed Ben Mohamed Mahdawi explores strategies of appropriation and resistance...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Lavie Tidhar’s stark thrilling portrait of Israeli history]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Lavie Tidhar's "Adama" is a stark portrait of Israeli history, exploring violence, hope and self-destruction...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/bfa6fb99-be7f-4d0c-a527-5e298e9f5474</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Halim Youssef’s ‘Love in the Shadow of Dark Flags’]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Between political terror and human sensitivity, Halim Youssef’s ‘Love in the Shadow of Dark Flags’ opens up a space of literary intensity....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Abdulrazak Gurnah's 'Theft']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "Theft", Abdulrazak Gurnah traces the fine cracks that run through friendship, love and origins when a society is set in motion....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Alia Mamdouh | Presence of the Absent Man | عالية ممدوح]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Alia Mamdouh’s The Shadow of the Absent Ma  is considered the first Arabic short story to openly address female desire between women - courageous, sensual, unforgettable.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b6bdbbce-d125-4aeb-afe1-1b68f617a9c8</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Negro | Black | Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With “Black”, Literatur.Review publishes a powerful new poem by Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, one of the leading voices of decolonial feminism...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/3945291a-24b3-46e4-b41d-99ad530b02c8</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Remembering Borders by Arturo Soto]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In his new book "Border Documents", Mexican photographer Arturo Soto unfolds a quiet, poetic topography of memory - far from clichés, close to everyday reality...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/0d23527b-4dbd-4f65-a760-9cf916239148</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Language, power & resistance - the case of Western Sahara]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[UN Resolution 2797(2025) barely made Western headlines — yet the conflict’s linguistic dimension is crucial. Maja Zwick shows how...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/bc10fcc9-d999-4a9d-8f09-60e9a1780e14</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Understanding China (and ourselves) better]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How do we understand China—truly? Our review of  Romain Graziani’s ‘Les Lois et les Nombres’ explains why a sober, nuanced perspective is more urgent than ever...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/a33d5c46-0811-4d6a-bf6f-5b0d27bf7403</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview: The Theatre of Resistance and South Africa's Story]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a riveting interview, Shafā’ath-Ahmad Khān opens up about living under apartheid, creating banned plays, and the enduring fight for racial equality through art...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/ef7a22ec-30b8-491b-a6ab-2a938f0efa70</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: 'I deliver parcels in Beijing' by Hu Anyan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In his haunting autofiction ‚I deliver parcels in Beijing‘, Hu Anyan exposes the grim reality of China’s platform economy: 12-hour shifts, one parcel every four minutes.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/fc822365-1fc7-4558-b040-69fb38bfb20f</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Film:  The myth and compassion | Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Starting tomorrow on Netflix: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein adaptation is more than just a remake: it is a liturgical reading of Mary Shelley’s myth...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/a47f6d7f-ff09-41a9-95e0-f6f6dcea7916</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Comic: "El abismo del olvido" by Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The graphic novel "El abismo del olvido" by Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa is an astonishing educational piece about dealing with mass graves in Spain...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d6a49187-8426-4fe0-b8da-70b88cdc1c1c</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: The stranger on the edge of the valley by Jana elHassan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This month's short story by Jana Elhassan is a masterfully told parable about projection, fear, and the need to give a name to the incomprehensible...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/9fabc889-fbb0-4b86-bbed-e3c67eb5252f</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: "The House of Doors" by Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In his third novel "The House of Doors", Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng skilfully blends fact and fiction, exploring the relationship between life and literature...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/4bdc8dc6-4fdd-477d-84cc-1ac1f51355dd</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: 'Tuesday' by Kurdish writer Menaf Othman]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Tuesday like a holiday in a field of thorns: From Menaf Othman, a Kurdish-Syrian writer who endured decades in prison, this essay explores how Tuesday becomes much more.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/59b291bc-2aa9-497a-b425-844cb1c3e0b2</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Adaptation and resistance | Anpassung und Widerstand]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Adaption or resistance? Three German novels – The Loyal Subject, Darkness at Noon, Flight to Afar – show how relevant questions of ideology, power and morality remain.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/e43d84d7-dfed-44fb-84e5-806ccd69ece9</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview: «For me, literature  is a form of protest.»]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are certain that young North Nigerian author and language activist, Sumaiyah Muhammad Salisu, will be present at one of the Frankfurt Book Fairs in the near future...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/6aef9d6e-ea1c-44e7-9c07-e4aee3cfe9b2</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: The One-Night Stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Just in time for today’s opening ceremony of the Frankfurt Book Fair, with the Philippines as guest of honour, we are publishing a short story by Cecilia Brainard...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/90e740ab-c559-4628-b9cc-08d695025c01</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: Literary travel in the Philippines and beyond]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From Manila to Naga City and Santa Monica – Philippine literature is as complex and fragmented as the country and its languages. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Videocast: Past, present and future - Frankfurter Buchmesse Part 1 ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The first part of our special feature on the Frankfurter Buchmesse is a video of a panel discussion with three female writers from the Bikol region.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: The blood of the gazelle | A poem by Aya Gamal Mohey]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our poetess of the month is Aya Gamal Mohey Eldeen from Egypt, who has sent us a wonderful, lucid poem entitled 'The blood of the gazelle'...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/2486cf90-2f1c-4ed9-aca3-a006d90a6512</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Aria for the end of the world by Ollier Lemvo Dondedieu]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our short story of the month comes from Texaco La Tsiémé in Brazzaville. It is a tender yet cruel coming-of-age story by Ollier Lemvo Dondedieu Richtel...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/7c2bb74a-e8cd-4854-a107-5ce9115a8bcf</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Caroline Hau | 'Tiempo Muerto' | 'Stille im August']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Caroline Hau's emotionally charged and intelligent novel 'Tiempo Muerto' has finally been translated into German and has been published by Wunderhorn Verlag...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/25fe5b78-6c04-4085-94e0-b1e0011a2630</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Omar Alhadi's prize-winning essay, 'Fear of the Camera']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are delighted to publish the winner of the Michel Kilo Prize for Political Essays: Omar Alhadi’s magnificent text on the sobering effect of social media in Syria...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/fe2ed86d-1cea-4990-a997-0c49406ce515</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Comic: Deena Mohamed's graphic novel masterpiece 'Shubeik Lubeik']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Following the Arabic original and the English translation, the German translation of Deena Mohamed's graphic novel masterpiece, Shubeik Lubeik, has now been released...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/320a81e1-ff8e-4be0-9bf3-5d10dcd9f7e6</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Thomas Kuhn, Cinema, and the AI Age of Revolutions]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a beautiful and poetic essay, physicist and filmmaker Peter Baranowski rereads Thomas S. Kuhn's masterpiece, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/6274d56c-cf1e-409c-9e44-d42f9fecdde3</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Richard Reid's "The African Revolution" ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Richard Reid, a professor of African History, fills an important gap. In his book "The African Revolution" he describes how Africa was changing before European takover...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/00ec54ab-cda3-49da-87be-683acd754797</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Sari Hanafi on Didier Fassin's Moral Abdication (Gaza)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In 'Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza', Didier Fassin applies the lens of anthropology’s moral turn...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/06bdc593-b81c-448b-b770-172e7095cf53</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview with Megha Sood, an award-winning Asian American poet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After our special month of short stories, we return to normal life with an interview by Mbizo Chirasha. He spoke with Megha Sood, an award-winning Asian American poet...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b060dd18-3e82-4f81-b1f5-bc4a4df9a6ee</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Stories: The Adventuress - A Fairy Tale of the Diaspora]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We started our Short Story Special with a story from the Philippines, and, since the Philippines are guest of honour at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, we'll one more.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/8c2222cd-33e7-4c6c-b1c0-b7b46209e0ae</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Stories: Shot on the mountain -  A true story from the Alpes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Following our story about suicide in Vietnam, we have another story on this topic,  a true story from  the Bavarian Alps about a hut keeper who has had enough from life.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/ee9e83df-2a36-436b-a39b-f8e352558471</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Stories: Father Resolved to Kill Himself (Vietnam)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are delighted to present a captivating story by Phan Thúy Hà, a Vietnamese writer and one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Vietnamese literature.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/e2a1bf41-53f3-4d94-b64c-42e3beb46b11</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Stories: "This Life, No Balance" by Makhosini Mpofu]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, we are sharing a story from Harare by Makhosini Mpofu, who is a  writer from Zimbabwe. It's about identity, the struggle for it, and the curse called hope.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/abf293d8-14e7-4529-82e2-cfa4f2ea46e2</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Short Stories: "The Wall" by Rami Tawil]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are pleased to share a short story by Syrian writer Rami Tawil. Passages from „The Wall“ remind us of Kafka’s shortest texts. However, Tawil has his own unique style.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/041ab3d2-0300-411b-9b5b-731f383fa5ed</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Short Stories:  "Roots" by María Ignacia Schulz]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[María Ignacia Schulz shares with us ‚Raíces’ (Roots), an intimate and reflective story that explores the existential condition of ‚identity limbo’...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/67c99dba-3df9-4981-ab4b-9abbf65b549a</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Short Stories: Melara Mvogdobo | Dieu Merci!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today’s short story is by Melara Mvogdobo. The author, who has roots in Switzerland and Cameroon, first came to our attention earlier this year with a wonderful novel...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/60e862f1-8361-4e50-98cd-7f9aa0562294</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Pyrotechnic celebrations around a defloration...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The second short story in our summer special is by Yemeni author Nadia Alkowkabani and deals with masculine rituals surrounding defloration...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/f19e68bd-4f31-4bcc-ab55-9c5a8e8cefdf</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR August Short Stories: "Santiago's Cult" by Kristian Sendon Cordero]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are starting our summer of short stories with a powerful  coming-of-age story by Kristian S. Cordero set at the time of Marcos Sr.‘s declaration of martial law...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/4c27f7c6-90f2-465a-b8ea-69b169e17c12</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: After reading Tajimara by Rodolfo Lara Mendoza]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/509dd25c-1272-4ab5-951f-ae696090be95</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Luna Sicat Cleto | Open Sea | A pioneering achievement...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Luna Sicat Cleto's poems are the first works of Filipino literature to be translated directly from Tagalog into German -  a pioneering cultural achievement...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/73808a28-d53f-406e-bd6a-a5cb9c52b3c6</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: "The Once and Future World Order“ by Amitav Acharya]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The West has passed its zenith - a new world is emerging. In his new book "The Once and Future World Order",  Amitav Acharya explains why we shouldn't be afraid...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/48beb466-486a-4acd-87da-b4dfad6abb85</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Between trauma and dream - China's literary present]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Fantasy, science fiction and poetry play an important role in China as advertising media for state nationalism and social media companies...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/51e0434a-b221-44f2-b085-d79198bd5c70</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview: Yolanda A. Pizarro on ancestral memory & digital future]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Between ancestral memory and the digital future: When literature becomes a digital trench...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Leila Eid | Poet of the month | As if I never existed]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our poet of the month is Leila Eid, a Lebanese poet, writer and journalist who is currently considered one of the most important Lebanese women poets...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Without ship or land - Waseem Hussain's "Habitus"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With "Habitus", Swiss journalist and musician Waseem Hussain skilfully catapults himself into the higher echelons of literary writing, tackling a topic as old as humanity]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/6c416f67-d340-4073-b38b-6144586f021c</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: The most consequential corruption scandal since WW II]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA["Nordstream: How Germany is paying for Putin's war" reveals the architects of the biggest and most consequential corruption scandal since World War II...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/25896836-4661-4e29-908e-2e9602df8110</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Story of the month by Saad Al Dousari, Saudi Arabia]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our short story of the month is by one of the co-founders of literary modernism in Saudi Arabia, Saad Al Dousari. It is a story about oppression and war...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b40cc394-06b8-4d0e-a236-785d500dc400</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: When the rivers fall silent | Jhak Valcourt]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Jhak Valcourt's collection of poems "Cuando callan los ríos" (When the rivers fall silent) not only highlights the identity crisis of the lyric self...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/4de2d394-ac15-4f82-942a-095f8548c79f</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Lyndal Roper's  "Summer of Fire and Blood"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Lyndal Roper's work "Summer of Fire and Blood", published to mark the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants' War not only convincingly  recounts the past...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/27b27283-ee0e-4def-9358-795b78f24cec</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Suzanne Collins' important fifth Hunger Games novel]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The fifth instalment in Suzanne Collins‘ Hunger Games series - the prequel „Sunrise on the Reaping“ - is  a valuable contribution to New Adult literature in hard times]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/bcc45ddc-c5c7-4d4b-8b6e-8eada66dba5f</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Melara Mvogdobo | Großmütter | Grandmothers | الجدات]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In her novel "Grandmothers" (Großmütter), Swiss author Melara Mvogdobo distills two life stories from different cultures into a literary coup d'état...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/13b8c49e-9508-413b-bfce-4e263ff03d99</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Short story of the month by Huda al-Naimi (Qatar)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This month's short story comes from Qatar and was written by Huda al-Naimi. It explores the themes of love, loss, and the unpredictable power of poetry...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/eeb3bcee-1de1-4247-a0f3-5d45557658cc</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Poem of the month by Alaa Hassanien]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How are fake news born? Anthropologist Julien Bonhomme offers a vivid example from Africa, where rumours claim the French state is behind penis thefts...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/5d92bede-57da-4582-a66d-dcb02d1e7643</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Macron & the sex thieves: Rumour & disinformation in Africa]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How are fake news born? Anthropologist Julien Bonhomme offers a vivid example from Africa, where rumours claim the French state is behind penis thefts...]]></description>
      <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://assets.steadyhq.com/production/post/c54eecb3-70d2-4b0f-bc05-f702efa958aa/uploads/images/uyuv5bjsnk/Portrait_2.jpeg?auto=format&amp;h=787&amp;w=1400&amp;fit=fill&amp;fm=jpg&amp;crop=faces" medium="image"/>
      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/c54eecb3-70d2-4b0f-bc05-f702efa958aa</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Colm Tóibín's poetry collection "Vinegar Hill"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the great Irish writer Colm Tóibín turned 70. Today, we honour him with a review by Alexandru Bulucz of his poetry collection „Vinegar Hill“...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/fbf5791a-fdab-4e4a-b7ed-73a0c3e52693</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 12:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Film: Dag Johan Haugerud's The Oslo Trilogy | Oslo Stories]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With his Oslo trilogy „Love“, „Dreams“ and „Sex“, which is currently being released in cinemas worldwide, Dag Johan Haugerud has created a cinematic and literary marvel.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/98f2eb13-f531-4fc6-93af-fbd34c884f02</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 13:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: A deep reading by Jhak Valcourt of Rooney Ramirez's poems]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I condemn the night and its hunting dogs: Explosion of a cry too long stifled - A deep reading of Rooney Ramirez's early poems and the search for the poetic self...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d57b63e2-13cb-4a27-9920-2ba11a283249</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 15:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Comic: Luz - Two female semi-nudes | Zwei weibliche Halbakte]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA["Zwei weibliche Halbakte" (Two female semi-nudes), Luz's graphic novel, is as moving as it is graphically incisive]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d8c571e2-ac73-406a-82a1-ccc52c76eef6</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 13:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Poem of the month by Lamia Makaddam]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our poem of the month is taken from „The Book of the Body“ by Lamia Makkadam, published by Dar Takween as part of the „Eshrakat“ series, supervised by poet Adonis]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/3692fa1c-b180-42ca-8af7-c69725447ceb</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 13:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Gilles Kepel | Le bouleversement du monde]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Gilles Kepel, the most renowned French expert on the Middle East, published an updated edition of his book on the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on October...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/380232e3-035f-461f-8754-cccdd7b141ff</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 13:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: السلطة واللّامرئي | Power & invisibility by Ghizlan Touati]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a nuanced essay, the Algerian writer Ghizlan Touati reflects on the Arab Booker Prize and why only two women have won it over the years...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/1c6c2188-f151-4d4e-a501-a8624a9c51e0</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 13:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Fann Attiki's "Cave 72" - Mechanisms of power]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[„Cave 72“, Fann Attiki’s political satire about life and death in Brazzaville is also a disturbing and universally relevant portrait of a society held hostage...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b7205f16-d0ea-43e5-90e5-cf989c63c877</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 12:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Pregnancy cravings by Hassan Marzougui]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today's short story comes from Tunisia by Hassan Al-Marzouqi who takes a humorous look at the power of the spoken and written word and how traditions can be reused...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/a7860e64-9c00-4244-a256-348361f10dbf</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: The Age of Umbrage | Ein ziemlich böses Mädchen]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In her coming-of-age novel The Age of Umbrage, Jessica Zafra creates a gripping portrait of Philippine society under the Marcos regime that is frighteningly contemporary.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/99b4eb0e-b65e-41e1-a607-38294ad66d34</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: الحنين إلى مدن لم تعد موجودة | Nostalgia for vanished cities]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a personal essay, the Egyptian writer, journalist and filmmaker Alaa Hassanien, who lives in France, describes her painful longing for a city that has disappeared...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/99aabbfb-9b53-4102-a06a-06a4affdec63</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: "Decolonization: The End of Empires"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[70 years after the Bandung Conference, Jan C. Jansen and Jürgen Ostermann present an updated edition of "Decolonization: The End of Empires"...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/99fef5a9-f901-4388-be1a-5d85d826fb2c</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: "The Great Divide" by Cristina Henríquez]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a personal essay, the Syrian poet, writer and journalist Manahel Alsahoui writes about her double identity with a pseudonym under the rule of Assad...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Goodbye Carmen Karim... | وداعاً كارمن كريم…]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a personal essay, the Syrian poet, writer and journalist Manahel Alsahoui writes about her double identity with a pseudonym under the rule of Assad...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Annie Ernaux's "I Remain in Darkness"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Finally in German , "I Remain in Darkness" - and an Annie Ernaux who perhaps wants nothing more and literature that can do everything after all...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Shake It Off, by Jenny Ortuoste, Philippines]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our short story of the month is a sad and beautiful story from the Philippines, written by Jenny Ortuoste. It deals with death, superstition and mourning...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Facebook Writers by Chibueze Darlington Anuonye]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Chibueze Darlington Anuonye's "Facebook Writers: The Emergence of a New Generation of Nigerian Poets" - categorises the fourth generation of Nigerian poets...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Sachbuch: Von der Einzigartigkeit der Europäischen Union]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Nicht nur die menschliche DNA ist eine Doppelhelix, auch die ineinandergreifenden Rechtssysteme der EU sind es. Ulrich Haltern geht dem in „Verschlungene Staaten“ nach.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: The age of pleasure - An essay by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Childhood memories of the coast and a time of imperceptible pleasure. By Yuliana Ortiz Ruano...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Chimamanda Adichie's emancipation novel 'Dream Count']]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Activism is rarely good for literature: Chimamanda Adichie's emancipation novel "Dream Count" about four women in times of coronavirus is as redundant as it is annoying.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Special: Alhierd Bacharevič @LeipzigerBuchmesse & @LiteraturReview]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Leipzig Book Fair begins tomorrow, 27 March. Alhierd Bacharevič will be awarded the Prize for European Understanding tonight. He present @Literatur.Review as well...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: The day I fell in love with a theatre! By Rosa Yassin Hassan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[About the places that shape us and that we shape - narratives on the Syria of yesterday and the Syria of today.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Alexandru Bulucz on E. E. Cummings „my sweet old etcetera“]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the morally ambivalent reading of E.E. Cumming's poems, particularly "my sweet old etcetera", a poem about and against war. Or is it?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Movie Star - A coming-of-age story from Kolkata]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Movie Star - A coming-of-age story from Kolkata by Eugene Datta]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Comic: "Xi Jinping, the Emperor of Silence"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Eric Meyer (text) and Gianluca Costantini (illustrator) tell the story of Xi Jinping's life in their graphic novel "Xi Jinping, the Emperor of Silence"...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: A cat in front of the silence room by Mamoun Eltlib]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Even before the 2019 revolution and the current civil war, the Sudanese were fighting against their ruling elite: a literary reportage]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Felix K. Nesi's "People from Oetimu" is a literary firework display that places an otherwise barely mentioned region of Indonesia at the heart of astonishing events...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Portrait: Muscat seen through a writer's eyes by Bushra Khalfan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Get out: Muscat seen through a writer's eyes... A portait of a city by Bushra Khalfan]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Short story of the month | Captain Wants to Go to Dili]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A story from Timor's colonial past - Translated into English from the Indonesian by Nadhif Seto Sanubari]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: The age-old dilemma of journalism vs. literature]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A look at Latin American literature and the boundaries between truth and falsehood to illustrate the need for the chronicle as a literary resource...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner "Orbital"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winner "Orbital" shows from afar what, up close, we fail to grasp - the fragility of our planet and our solitary lives...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/c6e83a77-952f-471b-9423-a9bb9a46d342</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: One hundred poems, sixty Lebanese poets...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA["Dusk" brings together fragmented poetic worlds and gives them voice in three languages...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: The Story Behind the Story by Radha Vatsal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A historical crime novel, "No. 10 Doyers Street" (March 2025) tells the story of a woman journalist from India who becomes embroiled in the case of a Chinatown gangster..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Comic: Great art! Great art?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A look back at some of the most notable comics from the last year...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay:  A tribute to María Lugones by Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In increasingly hostile times, voices that remind us why we fight are vital. Like that of María Lugones, who was mentor to our author...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Asal Dardan's "Traumaland"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Germany, the country whose inhabitants would love to be world champions in everything, holds a sad record: that of the highest number of migrants killed in the EU...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature:  "Summer with scouts, pirates, and pregnant rats"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our last story in this month's series of short stories comes to us from Quezon City in the Philippines and is written by Daryll Delgado...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: "The last of their kind" -  A German-Namibian Story]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Another love story  but with a suicidal twist, the question of professional and national identity and at least some hope comes from German-speaking author Fritz Freithoff]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/9ecddee9-1073-4ae2-9f32-129ee25fe726</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature:  Dear God, Don’t Look Down by Philani A. Nyoni]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today we have a raw love story from Jo'burg, South Africa, by Zimbabwean Philani A. Nyoni. And as raw as the love is, as creative is the language used...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/eded0b30-403a-456d-879b-c9ec487d2435</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: "Broken hearts" -  A Lebanese-Canadian story]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our story today comes from Lebanese author Hilal Chouman, who lives in Canada and writes about the painful and healing ways of remembering...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b632833f-3e79-43da-afe0-3b9a54dde288</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Inauguration Special - "Woman Voter" by Jen Conley]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of Donald Trump's inauguration, we publish a story by Jen Conley that shows how high the price of this victory is...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/98bfca42-66bf-4734-b1b3-8c0f9264445d</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: "The Cairo fire"  by Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today we present a story from the "powerhouse" of Arabic literature, Egypt, a symbol-rich yet subtle political tale by Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d177f4db-e3c8-4951-bc09-e5c4bd5432de</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature:  "Night of the Wild Boar Hunt" by Ines Abassi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today we have a story from the Tunisian coast. It may not sound spectacular, but what Ines Abassi makes of it, is very special indeed…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/7776f344-1622-4234-9ede-a0cc2c5e9a19</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: La chute | The Fall by Fann Attiki (Republic of Congo)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, literature takes us to the Central African region. Fann Attiki has sent us a great story from Congo-Brazzaville that is about nothing other than life and death...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/77df64ca-5c36-455a-8cd8-ea1fb27d4d52</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Milk Shakes and Daddies by Bebang Siy (Philippines)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, this month's literary journey takes us to the Philippines and a coming-of-age story by Bebang Siy, set in the red-light district of Manila...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/fa1c220b-0e97-49c9-a11a-f4fd9e8ce954</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Biryani - A story from the United Arab Emirates]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today we publish a story by Ali AlShaali from the United Arab Emirates, which tells the surprising, clever and poetic story of a young Afghan man's migration....]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d5a07ca9-8770-4df3-b775-7e4677fb1915</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: "The false king" by Laila Abdullah from Oman]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our third short story of the month comes from Laila Abdullah from Oman and asks important political questions...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/336a4c31-7d11-4a36-8b21-6230042fff39</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Molar | Muela by/por Carlos Vázquez Cruz]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A Puerto Rican man in Michigan talks about loss and shame experienced whilst pursuing a doctoral degree in North Carolina...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/e83b63f2-4923-4f39-811f-9a48e07e4cd4</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: "Railroad to the Sun" by Stefan Markovski]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With a short story from Macedonia about the beauty and sadness of life by Stefan Markovski we open our second round of "Summer" short stories...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/af99c200-e8fa-45fd-af75-81c685894179</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction:  The impressive debut novel by Jean D'Amérique]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In his impressive debut novel "Soleil à coudre" (A Sun to be Sewn), Jean D'Amérique tells, in powerful language, of precarious circumstances, and of a tough childhood...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/51b67d08-956e-4bc7-b773-aaff310e4f82</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Nobel Prize winner Han Kang's new novel "We Do Not Part"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA["We Do Not Part", the new novel by the recently awarded Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, tells of transgenerational trauma, a tender female friendship and a reunion...]]></description>
      <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://assets.steadyhq.com/production/post/d49089e0-9c29-4d66-8342-eefcfb019525/uploads/images/imkssxenzy/Han-Kang-c-Yeseul-Jeon_text.jpg?auto=format&amp;h=787&amp;w=1400&amp;fit=fill&amp;fm=jpg&amp;crop=faces" medium="image"/>
      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d49089e0-9c29-4d66-8342-eefcfb019525</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Xmas Special: A Hindu festival called Christmas by Kiran Nagarkar]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Encounters between a non-practising Hindu and Roman Catholicism...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/679b56d8-6231-40d1-8241-799e0a501954</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Jörg Schieke's Silverman schickt mich | Silverman sends me]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Jörg Schieke's poems in "Silverman schickt mich" (Silverman sends me) captivate with their irresolvable character...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/2c8baa81-09f7-4bdb-bbda-21485f08abcf</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Short story of the month by Mojaffor Hossain]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Our short story of the month comes from Bangladeshi writer Mojaffor Hossain and is a clear statement on what has gone wrong in Bangladesh in recent years...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/342ff5ac-6fae-4b58-b425-96f6b468c194</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Still Today | Heute noch - by Zsuzsanna Gahse]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Family trees are an endlessly interesting subject for many, but a look at the different language families is equally as informative...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/3c4d0a5c-7a29-4efd-9373-a972b0fc69c3</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: We were all sleeping - "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In his Booker Prize-winning "Prophet Song", Paul Lynch succeeds in transforming our fragile political present into a bleak vision more relevant than a political treatise.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b31be507-dcbc-4798-a718-76eb8f4945bf</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Finales olvidados | Forgotten endings | Rodolfo Lara Mendoza]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What do we remember if not islands? In literature, film and real life too. And it's not only the narrative that matters...]]></description>
      <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://assets.steadyhq.com/production/post/7c3f14f5-efb2-4027-92aa-7ed4449ee39e/teaser_image/1734361286?auto=format&amp;h=787&amp;w=1400&amp;fit=fill&amp;fm=jpg&amp;crop=faces" medium="image"/>
      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/7c3f14f5-efb2-4027-92aa-7ed4449ee39e</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Horror, comfort and hope]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[More and more people fear that humanity is facing the collapse of civilization due to climate change and other crises. Some books can help us to better understand this...]]></description>
      <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://assets.steadyhq.com/production/post/e37b0eb4-1ae2-418b-a562-fae0b44641e0/teaser_image/1734185587?auto=format&amp;h=787&amp;w=1400&amp;fit=fill&amp;fm=jpg&amp;crop=faces" medium="image"/>
      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/e37b0eb4-1ae2-418b-a562-fae0b44641e0</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature:  A story about wounds of identity in Lebanon]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Souhaib Ayoub writes about the his wounds of identity in Lebanon]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/94819dfe-3d2e-45b1-8d0d-571a53332434</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: On Not Reading Rizal by Caroline Hau]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Today we have a brilliant essay by Caroline Hau showing how misunderstanding is essential to the longevity of two Filipino literary masterpieces...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/c4742e82-9940-46d4-a5d3-9a72afc0934e</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Journey into the heart of a toxic relationship]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "Der Teufelsgriff" (The Devil's Grip) Lina Wolff masterfully tells the story of an "amour fou" between a Swedish woman and an Italian man in Florence...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: "Harare's New Literary Mecca" by Philani A. Nyoni]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Harare International Literary Festival not only shakes hands with writers, poets, academics and a former spy. It also fills a gaping void...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Tash Aw's memoir "Strangers on a Pier"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Tash Aw's memoir "Strangers on a Pier" is an illuminating and touching document about the search for family and national identity in times of migration...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[„Intermezzo“ - a musical interlude, an unexpected chess move, and now Sally Rooney’s latest novel, in which she tackles the universal themes of grief, loss and love...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: Blind blood in the corridor - a war diary from Gaza]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[LR Report: The war in Lebanon is over, but the war in Gaza continues. From there we have a literary report by poet Fatena Al-Ghorra...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Clemens Böckmanns Was du kriegen kannst (What you can get)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[LR Fiction: In  "Was du kriegen kannst" (What you can get), Clemens Böckmann gives a harrowing insight into the life of a sex worker who spied for the Stasi...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Middle East Special - A story by Marie Tawk, Lebanon]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the current catastrophe in the Middle East, we have invited authors from the region to write stories, poems and essays... Today a story by Marie Tawk]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/f3c2323b-8029-448e-be3a-0f79ff30bfd3</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: Short Story of the Month by Waseem Hussain]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[ Our short story of the month is a story from Pakistan and Switzerland by Waseem Hussain...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Saleem Albeik on "Land, people and place in genocide"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be a Palestinian in the diaspora, an outsider who can only contemplate his homeland from his hereditary exile through the characters in his novels?]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/48dcef39-5254-45bd-895e-fc866b040683</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Die Erde hebt uns auf (The earth lifts us up) by Tom Schulz]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With his three cycles in "Die Erde hebt uns auf", Tom Schulz has produced an outstanding volume of poetry that is as beautifully sad and formally rigorous...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Literature: A poem by Bana Baydoun, Lebanon]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the current catastrophe in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, we invited authors from the region to write for us - today it is a poem by Bana Baydoun.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/8d07367e-2bb9-4617-890a-26578edb4c79</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: "Critique of the grand gesture" by Armin Nassehi]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "Kritik der großen Geste", sociology professor Armin Nassehi calls for politicians to refrain from making huge demands in times of crises...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/da801c59-375d-4b96-aede-3a9ee544fa03</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 15:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: Joseph O'Neill's football and "Africa" novel "Godwin"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Joseph O'Neill's carefully researched football novel "Godwin" plays with the question of whether a biography with any degree of integrity can still unfold in this world]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/7001250e-647f-42f1-b386-0f7b39351f5e</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: US election special - Haiti and its diaspora in Mayday mode]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a longread, Erica Joseph explains how the now-ending US election campaign has not only deeply disturbed the Haitian diaspora in the US, but also provoked paradoxes.]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/8acf6312-3e18-4a79-b429-991d9097794a</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: Of encounters and misunderstandings - The FrankfurtBookFair]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It took a little time to sort out the thoughts, encounters and encounters and summarise them into a few reflections on the Frankfurt Book Fair...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/cc8d5d64-f3c2-4585-b842-2081a009d7a7</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Robert Menasse & Does the European Union have a future?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "The World of Tomorrow: A Sovereign Democratic Europe - and its Enemies", Robert Menasse asks whether nationalism is becoming the gravedigger of the EU...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/2ea19ec3-d660-4aa4-bde4-c7b2abc3b614</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: What we keep quiet in the "truck" by Jhak Valcourt]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the brutal deportations of Haitians from the Dominican Republic we are publishing a literary report by Haitian writer Jhak Valcourt...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/ef11df83-18af-46c4-94b4-08daacd834ba</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Prose: Mirror - A story from Morocco by Mohamed Khalfouf]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As part of our new ‘Short Story of the Month’ format, today we are publishing a short story by the young Moroccan author Mohamed Khalfouf about a ‘mirror’...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/4b47a98a-54f7-44a7-9660-f41d87afe9a7</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Interview with Nenden Lilis Aisyah: „Islam is not anti-feminist!“]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Writer, poet and lecturer Nenden Lilis Aisyah on the development of Indonesian literature, politics, mass killings, feminism and the modern approach to Islam in Indonosia]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/2971a961-d4b1-44e1-ab6e-682e7da1e5e2</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: On sentences and lizards by Zsuzsanna Gahse]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The moods of different languages and the corresponding moods of the speakers...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/c0122351-d120-42cf-8007-30473739e4b4</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction Review: Gianfranco Calligarich's "Like a Wild God"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "Like a Wild God", Gianfranco Calligarich transforms a forgotten, cruel piece of the puzzle that is Italian colonial history into a postmodern,  sparkling mosaic...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/15f2422e-19e1-4712-8640-124f949693b6</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Mayra Santos-Febres/Negra Letrada. Confesiones Afropoéticas]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[To mark the anniversary of the occupation of Latin America by Columbus on 12 October 1492, we are publishing an essay by Mayra Santos-Febres...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/d4e204cd-c152-4cab-be93-dd2b75a60157</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Report: Literature behind bars - Ronya Othmann in Spandau]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Have a future: As part of the ILB, Ronya Othmann reads in the open prison in Spandau, Berlin...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/0cb397bd-355a-4518-855d-50a5e28997a4</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: "Wandering Stars", the new novel by Tommy Orange]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA["Wandering Stars", the new novel by Tommy Orange, is a gripping Native American family epic of volcanic force...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/e732c759-40c3-4e62-8e7e-91152bc4a3c0</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 07:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction: "The Raven Who Loved Me" by Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "The Raven Who Loved Me", Sudanese Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin transforms a migrant's deadly journey into a comedy - a courageous and well-executed feat...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/03125de8-4aa0-4c23-a285-bb5c5afd3195</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 13:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Non-Fiction: Daniel Kehlmann on Leo Perutz]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In "About Leo Perutz", Daniel Kehlmann enthuses about this forgotten writer and shows why his novels are still worth reading decades after their publication...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Poetry: Visual and perceptual spaces - A. Bulucz on Urs Engeler]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The legend of German-language literature, poetry in particular - and his collection of poems "nicht nichts" (Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: The hacker. By Anjanette Delgado.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A feminist, accustomed to insult as a device, tells us what a hacker taught her about machismo.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction Review: Barbara Zeman's "Betelgeuse"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Barbara Zeman's "Betelgeuse" is an original work of linguistic art and an elixir for the heart, mind and all the senses...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction Review: Vlado Janevski's "Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[North Macedonian Vlado Janevski shows in his new novel "Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe" the truth within the truth or the novel within the novel - an amazing endeavour...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Fiction Review: Álvaro Enrigue’s „You Dreamed Of Empires“ ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Álvaro Enrigue’s „You Dreamed Of Empires“ takes a complex and vivid look on the first step of the Spanish colonisation of what was then Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Nonfiction: Slavery is not in the world, it is in us]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the recent German translation, we've reviewed "Worlds of Slavery - A Comparative History", published in 2021 by Éditions du Seuil in France...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Film: "The Peasants" by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA["The Peasants" transforms the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władysław Reymont into an artistically exciting but fundamentally disappointing drama...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/e19b476f-093b-4977-988f-bbb34499b3eb</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Comic: Important new releases and news in the comic sector]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Ney comics by Vanistendael, Alfonz, Larcenet & McCarthy, Ross, Adlard & Spurrier and Beuriot & Richelle...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Essay: Ethnography and critique of colonialism avant la lettre]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[As criticism of colonialism and bitter debates on cultural appropriation resurface, it is worth looking back to the 18th century and to Georg Forster...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Minsk Sea by Alhierd Bacharevič]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/b1184694-acc9-4c3e-af98-2f86e6c3342b</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Afraid of The Terror in The Wall by M. Egblewogbe]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Tungkong Langit + Alunsina by Allan N. Derain]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: The blessing of literature by Christoph Nick]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Sukri Slips the Blade by Hamsad Rangkuti]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: A Mermaid for a Bride by Nhlanhla Maake]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Vladimir Vladimirovich Takes A Drive by Radha Vatsal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: "First Love" by Samir El-Youssef]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: "Room 202" by Chuckberry J. Pascual]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: "The Reunion" by Stanley Onjezani Kenani]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: "Obituary" by  Igor Angjelkov]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/87eab921-9a3b-4e17-8750-d52878793860/posts/389683c7-0a14-4291-9027-43bb0859d602</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: "Unheard Story" by Ngathem Ningol Kongbam Ongbi Ibey]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: "Plugging the leak" by Ghanshyam Desai]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Iman Humaydan's "The Foreigner's Widow"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LR Short Stories: Stefan Grosser's "The Trans-Siberian Railway"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's summer in the global north (which is winter in the global south), and for the month of August Literatur.Review is bringing them all together...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For June, we once again hosted wonderful authors who wrote about language, identity and shame. And since sport is always part of culture and often resembles writing…]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For May, we've returned to our normal rhythm of two articles a week. Texts that once again cover most of the world and sometimes are a reflection on current politics...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After our first issue on March 21 with 25 essays, reviews, columns, reports, video- and podcasts we took it a bit easier this month...]]></description>
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