John Irvings neuer Entwicklungsroman »In einer Person« handelt von der Suche nach sexueller Identität. Link zur Rezension English version: Imagine a character, who has a crush on his stepfather, on elderly women with very masculine traits, and a bit of athing for his best female friend – pretty much “crushes on the wrong people” – then…
Billions of dollars disappear in the dark and opaque bureaucratic pits of coal mining and so many other shady places – but why? Is it really about human greed and money? Maybe, but we have to consider that every rupee is only a means for one end – power. Link to the article
The tip of my fountain pen kisses the paper and thus creates words. Your eyes meet these words and create thoughts. In the meantime, somewhere else in India, an economy is creating and creating. Everything around us is full of creation (Sanskrit: kriti). Link to the article
Wir stellen Ihnen jede Woche junge, talentierte Fotografen vor. Diesmal: Alexa Seewald, die für ihre Arbeit »Andersrum« homosexuelle Paare in der Rückansicht fotografiert hat. Link zum Artikel
In Turkey it is not uncommon to end up behind bars without a trial, if an author writes something that does not go along with the moral convictions of the ruling powers. Still, that is what Perihan Mağden does in her new novel, Ali and Ramazan, which became book of the year in Turkey in…
We live in a world where Daniel Zamudio, a 24-year-old, openly gay Chilean, gets beaten to death. A world, where dozens of countries still execute humans for their queer sexual identity and even in so-called ‘civilised counrties’ some people see homo-, inter-, and transsexuality as a disease.
