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Geopoliticsisrael

Impossible Friendship — A Deeper Look At Why Germany Won’t (Ever?) Criticize Israel

by Steffi Hentschke May 21, 2025May 21, 2025
Societydemocracy

Mario Vargas Llosa On Populism, Feminism, And Hoping To Die With A Pen In His Hand

by Miguel Wiñazki April 14, 2025April 14, 2025
Black-and-white portrait of Pablo Neruda, by Annemarie Heinrich, 1967
Societyliterature

A Poet’s Darkest Verse: Malva Marina, The Daughter Pablo Neruda Abandoned

by Matilde Sánchez March 10, 2025March 24, 2025
Detective Duo's First Case To Baroque Composer's Birth — On This Day In History March 4
This Happenedvladimir putin

Detective Duo’s First Case To Baroque Composer’s Birth — On This Day In History March 4

by Worldcrunch March 4, 2025March 24, 2025
A man choosing a book in a library.
Societyliterature

“Magic Realism” Mania And The Folly Of Categorizing Literature

by Juan David Torres Duarte and Alidad Vassigh December 6, 2024
​Person using a old typewrtier.
Ideasart

Can There Ever Be Writing Without The “I”?

by Juan David Torres Duarte and Alidad Vassigh October 23, 2024
photo of people in a circle holding hands
Societyartificial intelligence

Why AI Won’t Kill The Beauty Or Benefits Of Learning A Foreign Language

by Anna Franchin October 23, 2024
Teenagers leave Qalat Doubba Castle near the village of Shaqra South Lebanon
Israel-Palestine Wardisplaced people

Not Quite Death: My Diary Of Displacement From Southern Lebanon

by Traik Ismail October 20, 2024
Caspar David Friedrich: The Monk by the Sea
Societyliterature

On The Solitude Of Artists, Between Pose And Political Act

by Volker Weidermann October 10, 2024
Gunter Grass in 2004
Societyhistory

Gunter Grass, Literary Alpha Wolf Of Post-War Germany

by Bertrand Hauger October 4, 2024
Photo of people dressed as Nazgûls drinking with a couple in a pub
Ideasculture

​​Lord Of The Rings, A Guide​​ For Mending Relationships Damaged By COVID

by Bethany Wright October 4, 2024
Winnetou, The Immortal: Germany's Complicated Love Affair With Native American Lore
Societyliterature

Winnetou, The Immortal: Germany’s Complicated Love Affair With Native American Lore

by Chloé Touchard October 4, 2024
Sherlock Holmes monument in Meiringen
Food / Travelswitzerland

A Visit To Reichenbach Falls, Where Sherlock Holmes Went To Die

by Bernd Geisen October 4, 2024
The Brothers Grimm (daguerreotype 1847).
Societyliterature

Beyond Fairy Tales: How The Brothers Grimm Invented A Work Ethic For The Modern World

by Matthias Heine October 4, 2024
Barcelona's "Biblioteca García Márquez" interior on a sunny day.
Societyliterature

Inside The Gabriel García Márquez Library, A New Barcelona Architectural Icon

by Lorena Obiol September 25, 2024
Detail of French painter Auguste Toulmouche's work "The Love Letter" (1883), showing a woman wearing a pink dress reading a letter
Societylove

Dear Love Letter, Where Have You Gone?

by Betina González September 24, 2024
Black-and-white photograph of Czech-born writer Milan Kundera in May 1968, in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Societyliterature

Identity And Dissolution, A Czech Farewell To Milan Kundera

by Michal Kubala September 24, 2024March 13, 2025
The Hispanic World: United By Spanish, Divided By Spanish
In The Newsjournalism

The Hispanic World: United By Spanish, Divided By Spanish

by Alidad Vassigh September 17, 2024
Publishing War: When A Pro-Ukraine Author Refuses A Russian Translation
Russia-Ukraine Warukraine

Publishing War: When A Pro-Ukraine Author Refuses A Russian Translation

by Dawid Dróżdż September 9, 2024
Isabel Allende at a book signing event
Societyliterature

Why It Took Chile So Long To Honor Isabel Allende

by Alidad Vassigh August 20, 2024
Abdul Wahid shows a manuscript from the 14th century at his house in Timbuktu, North of Mali.
Societyhistory

A Future For Timbuktu’s Ancient Books? Conservation And Digitization

by Hannah Steinkopf-Frank August 20, 2024
Traditional street-art calligraphy
Ideaschina

What The Qing Dynasty And Charles Dickens Tell Us About Modern China

by Bertrand Hauger July 29, 2024
Palestinian kid next to a house riddled with bullet holes.
Israel-Palestine Wargaza

No Hero Stories To Tell, A Gaza Diary Of Ordinary Heartbreak

by Badia Fahs July 8, 2024
Paulo Coelho's 20th novel, 'Hippie' has just hit the stores
In The Newsliterature

Interview With A Recovering Hippie Named Paulo Coelho

by Alidad Vassigh July 2, 2024
Photo of the book cover of ​Gabo's newly-published En agosto nos vemos ("Until August")
Societyculture

García Márquez’s Final Novel And The Eternal Beauty Of The Unfinished

by William Ospina May 31, 2024
AI-generated image of Ukrainian soldiers fighting Orcs from Lord of the Rings.
Russia-Ukraine Warukraine

Rings, Orcs And Hope: Searching For Signs Of Tolkien In The Ukraine War

by Michal Kubala May 24, 2024
A window on the future?
In The Newshistory

All This Has Been Written Before, Literature As Oracle

by Alidad Vassigh May 22, 2024
Bureaucracy meets postmodernism
In The Newsliterature

David Foster Wallace, Finding Empathy Hidden In Red Tape

by Martin Greenacre May 22, 2024
image of a mosaic of marco polo
Societyliterature

Was Marco Polo Just Another War-Hungry Profiteer?

by Giordano Tedoldi May 22, 2024
A library in eastern Cairo
Societyeducation

Egypt’s Written Word, Increasingly In English

by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024
Latino neighborhood in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC
Eyes on the U.S.united states

Spanglish, The Muy Popular U.S. Street Lingo

by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024
The author of Love in the Time of Cholera counted doctors amongst his closest friends
In The Newscolombia

García Márquez, A Writer’s Lifelong Obsession With Medicine

by Alidad Vassigh May 21, 2024
Gégé, up close and personal
In The Newscinema

Gérard Depardieu, The Impossible Interview

by Worldcrunch May 21, 2024March 19, 2025
An 'axe for the frozen sea inside us'
In The Newshistory

Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto

by Worldcrunch May 21, 2024
García Elizondo speaks at the University of Cartagena in 2016
In The Newscolombia

García Márquez’s Grandson Quietly Enters Literary World

by Alidad Vassigh May 21, 2024
Standing in the doorway, in Michoacán, Mexico
Ideashistory

Why Local History Matters In A Globalized World

by Alidad Vassigh May 21, 2024
Big Prizes For African Writers Don't Change Balance Of Power In Literary World
In The Newsafrica

Big Prizes For African Writers Don’t Change Balance Of Power In Literary World

by Hannah Steinkopf-Frank May 21, 2024
​The inauguration of the mural in memory of the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia
Geopoliticscolombia

New Revelations Of García Marquez’s Ties To Cuba And Nicaragua

by Alidad Vassigh May 21, 2024
Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ideasjournalism

García Márquez And Truth: How Journalism Fed The Novelist’s Fantasy

by Alidad Vassigh May 21, 2024
An Unearthed García Márquez Essay Collection Reveals: "Gabo, The Chronicler"
Societycolombia

An Unearthed García Márquez Essay Collection Reveals: “Gabo, The Chronicler”

by Alidad Vassigh May 21, 2024

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