Adorno’s “Education after Auschwitz” was central to German re-education, especially for leftist critics of post-genocidal Germany. That his warning against a new “reason of state” is now ignored even by academic elites exposes the hollowness of German memory politics—while Gaza is being destroyed.
Cristina Rivera Garzas Schwester wurde als junge Studentin in Mexiko-Stadt ermordet. Der Täter, ihr Ex-Freund, war bald bekannt, blieb aber unbestraft. 30 Jahre später kann die Hinterbliebene endlich darüber schreiben – mit einer wuchtigen Präzision, die beim Dauerthema Femizid ihresgleichen sucht.
In seinem – lt. Klappentext – «Coming-of-Middleage»-Roman Let’s Talk About Feelings brilliert Leif Randt im gleitenden, surface-sensiblen Erzählen. Der Eskapismus ist real und anschmiegsam, für ein Mikromilieu sogar realistisch; doch größere Türen der Gegenwart öffnen sich anderswo.
As Trump drags global trade and the dollar sinks to a four-year low, one bipartisan obsession endures: dollar dominance, the world’s reserve-currency privilege. Kenneth Rogoff’s Our Dollar, Your Problem could have traced its genealogy and risks, but instead serves up tired Boomer platitudes.
To keep us in the loop, the mental health industry, especially online, has hand-sized solutions for loss—even when it is as unbearable as losing a child. Against this tide of griefluencing, Yiyun Li’s memoir on the deaths of her sons insists on the permanence of sorrow—and a language of mutual care.
George Eliots letzter Roman Daniel Deronda von 1876 war ein protozionistisches Manifest. Die zu gründende jüdische Nation erscheint als biologistisch-spiritueller Gegenentwurf zum dekadenten, «perversen» Kosmopolitismus der Europäer – und als Muster für einen ethnisch reinen Nationalstaat.
In 1956, the ballet dancer Tanaquil Le Clercq gets polio and never dances in Afternoon of a Faun again. In 1967, Robert Motherwell finds grace in open rectangles. In 2002, a pop song’s quadrilateral refrain says “Dream About Me” on its missing side. In 2025, a critic must revoke her practice.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s latest novel follows three sisters from early adulthood into midlife, untangling the life of second-generation immigrants in Sweden. With six novels and countless awards, Khemiri is a darling of the international lit circuit—and a destabilizing force within his own narrative.