Esai, Feuilleton, Kritik Sastra

First published together in Latin in 1623, these two tracts, Enchyridion Physicae Restitutae and Arcanum were at once recognized to be among the clearest descriptions ever written of the hermetic …

”Delightfully insightful and intensely readable […] There is an energy and drama to Rory”s writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the reader, to make up our minds” – Stephen Fry We liv …

Black joy is . . . The babble and buzz of the barber shop. Chicken and chips after school with your girls. Stepping foot in your mother country for the very first time. Feeling at one with nature. Le …

Yan Lianke is one of the most important, prolific, and controversial writers in contemporary China. At the forefront of the “mythorealist” Chinese avant-garde and using absurdist humor and grotesqu …

Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize …

”Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece” WILLIAM DALRYMPLE ”A journalistic marvel” JAMES MEEK ”A powerful, unforgettable book” NADIFA MOHAMMED This is the story of a people who once …

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”The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them” …

An account of two lives during the war in Ukraine: one Ukrainian, one Russian, by the internationally bestselling author of Heimat Diaries of War is a magnificent feat of witness” Alison Bechdel ”N …