Last year we started the poco.lit. podcast and one thing was very important to us: Give independent bookshops all around Berlin space to recommend books.
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London is a favourite setting in literature: a lot has happened there historically, it is a cultural stronghold and numerous social problems can be discussed. Here are 5 excellent London novels to prove it.
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The year 2024 is coming to an end and [poco.lit.space] with it. We zoomed in on several aspects of postcolonialism in our online magazine, but also at our events and workshops.
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Es gibt (noch) wenige Romane über den deutschen Kolonialismus, aber Mirrianne Mahns Issa ist einer davon. In dieser Folge sprechen wir mit der Künstlerin und Aktivistin Mirrianne Mahn über ihr literarisches Debüt, ihre Liebe für die deutsche Sprache, ihre Archiv-Recherche und die politischen Dimensionen des Schreibens.
Zum Schluss empfehlen wir noch unsere Lieblingsbücher aus 2024.
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Ideas can travel in different contexts, but they also reach their limits. 5 essays about traveling ideas and their barriers.
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This is our third call for submissions and we are looking for pieces about being from. Please send us your pitch!
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After the revolution, a woman and a man become acquainted in a café in Cairo. A romance develops between the two of them, but it then takes a violent turn.
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Join us for an online lecture with Ervin Malakaj about literature in, not of, Germany on zoom on June, 4.
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If you are interested in postcolonial literature but don’t really know where to begin, we put together a list of 5 postcolonial classics for you.
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Like any respectable Indian family, the Shantis didn’t use the house kitchen, they cooked in their garage.
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