Literature
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Through books, from guest to voice in Germany: where is home for us, and where is exile?
From 1961 onwards, the workers who went to Germany waited to vote, but they did not wait for the ballot box to do politics. Following the books of Nermin Abadan-Unat, Gündüz Vassaf, Ayhan Kaya, Fatma Aydemir and Ece Temelkuran, we read sixty-five years that stretch from the Ford strike to Cem Özdemir becoming a state premier, from citizenship reforms to the rise of the AfD. The same questions are still on the table: Who is “German”? Where is “homeland”?
From a book club to curating a literature festival: Dua Lipa and Service95
World literature’s elegant revolutionaries: on the ‘Latin American Boom’
“Latin Amerika Patlaması - Boom Mektupları” (The Boom Letters), brought into Turkish by Süleyman Doğru, invites us into the world of four groundbreaking names in Latin American and Spanish-language literature, through an “introduction” written jointly by the book’s editors, some 207 letters and messages, the writers’ interviews with one another, and the essays, critiques and articles they wrote about their works.
This week in Bibliotherapy: books for teenagers who struggle to express themselves
There is a longer distance than we imagine between thinking about our feelings and expressing them. Sometimes thinking even becomes an alternative to expressing. We spend so much time in our own minds that we never have to talk to anyone else. In adolescence, on top of all this comes a sensitivity to what other people think. Three books for teenagers who find it hard to express themselves.
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