The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Desiree and Stella Vignes are identical and inseparable. Only those who know them well will be able to tell them apart: Desiree, the...
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- Aug 17, 2021
- 2 min
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The social laws of high school dynamics govern Connell and Marianne’s behaviour. He is the popular star of the school’s football team,...
- Aug 10, 2021
- 2 min
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
The term intersectional feminism was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how different dimensions of oppression – for example sexism...
- Aug 3, 2021
- 2 min
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Grand Union is Zadie Smith’s collection of short stories, comprising eleven completely new works as well as eight stories previously...
- Jul 27, 2021
- 3 min
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Moscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov – member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – faces a Bolshevik tribunal and the end to life as...
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
In face of the recent war in Israel and Palestine (and the outbreak of sharing other people’s 240-character opinions on social media), I...
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
Ich Würde So Etwas Nie Ohne Lippenstift Lesen von Michaela Karl
Heute ist sie fast in Vergessenheit geraten, doch einst war Maeve Brennan gefeierte Autorin und Ikone der New Yorker Modewelt. Die schöne...
- Jul 6, 2021
- 3 min
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Frank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...
- Jun 29, 2021
- 2 min
Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat
Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
all about love by bell hooks
Feminist writer bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is a passionate exploration of how we do and appeal to how we should love. What...
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The pain of growing up is the main character in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Woods. Toru Watanabe finds himself at a crossways, having to...
- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
Il Diavolo, Certamente di Andrea Camilleri
(english version below) Andrea Camilleri è l’autore molto amato dei romanzi polizieschi sul commissario Montalbano (28 romanzi ed alcuni...
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing traces the story of a Ghanaian family as it plays out both in the Asante region and in...
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min
Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell
Fathers and Sons is Howard Cunnell’s beautiful memoir about growing up, about love and masculinity, about fathers and sons. This short...
- May 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...
- May 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In the 1970s everyone knows The Six. Their songs are played on every radio station, their records and world tours sell out in the blink...
- Apr 20, 2021
- 3 min
5 Things I Loved about To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I have finally (!!) read To Kill a Mockingbird, after it had waited on top of my to-be-read list for years. Books with so much history...
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
What would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...
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