Prizes, bibliodiversity, women writers, green issues, freedom of speech – Read more
Happy in Berlin? English and British Writers and the Berlin Myth
Musa Okwonga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Kate McNaughton, Rory McLean – the list can be continued easily. All these writers grew up in Britain, or have close ties with the UK, but they live or have lived in Berlin Read more
Christmas in April – Post Kultur Parcels
Gesa Stedman introduces Post Kultur Read more
Book News February – March 2021
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news – for once, with a German focus. The German literary field has been rocked by two events which have generated an unprecedented amount of news and debates in newspapers and social media. This is going to be an unusual post, as […] Read more
Book News January 2021
Gesa Stedman listens to the radio, worries about giving up air and review space in favour of infotainment, questions the relation between politics and aesthetics, and once again looks at bookselling during the pandemic. Read more
Book News – What Happened in November and December 2020
Gesa Stedman rounds up the latest news from the literary field, including prizes, bookselling during the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the climate crisis. Read more
Caution: Reading in Progress (Class II)!
Gesa Stedman suffered from acute reader’s rage, when she explored three female authors promoted by The Bookseller in recent months. Read more
Book News for May and June 2020
Gesa Stedman goes on a round-trip and gives you the latest on sales figures, endemic racism in the literary field, bookselling during a pandemic, and more. The next Book News will be published after the summer break. Read more
Croeso i Gymru – Experiencing Literature Wales
Isabella Kremer and Taylor Hebert, two of Gesa Stedman’s students at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, spent their cultural immersion experience at Literature Wales. For Literary Field Kaleidoscope they talk about their experience. Read more
Book News April 2020
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news from the literary field in the UK and in Germany, from Corona-affected bookshops Read more
