Catching up on African literature: WiM in Berlin

30. April 2018Sandra van LenteEventsafrican literature, Berlin, curating, gatekeepers, literature festival, publishing, WiM18, Writing in Migration

WiM stands for “Writing in Migration”, the first African literature festival in Germany. It took place last week at the Babylon in Berlin. It was organised by the literary agency InterKontinental and curated by Olumide Popoola. Sandra van Lente attended two of the events and wrote a short report for […] Read more

New Series on The Literary Field Kaleidoscope for World Book Day: A Review of Tim Parks’ “Where I’m Reading From” in Monthly Instalments

23. April 2018Gesa StedmanControversies, Overview, Reviewpublishing; prizes; literary field; global book culture; Tim Parks

It is World Book Day today (only the English celebrate it in March) and a highly suitable occasion for us to launch a new monthly series: a chapter-by-chapter review of Tim Parks’ essay collection Where I’m Reading From. The Changing World of Books. He first published his collection Read more

A Chance to Be Someone Else – A Review of Ali Smith’s novel How to be Both

9. April 2018GuestReview, Students' CornerAli Smith, Alican Akyüz, guest post, How to be both, human experience

There are only a few books that can reveal the condition of being-in-the-world through the phenomenal power of language. Ali Smith’s How to Be Both is one of them, as Alican Akyüz finds in his review. In 1969, B. S. Johnson published The Unfortunates, a book that comes with 27 […] Read more