DeutschIan McEwan, Machines Like Me (2019)
A love tale between a man, a woman and … a robot in a counterfactual 1980s Britain Charlie,...
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Anna Burns, Milkman (2018)
In 2018 Northern Irish author Anna Burns won the UK’s prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction....
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(Deutsch) Jennifer Clement, “Gun Love” (2018)
The title page: A twin alligator whose heads interlock. Behind it, transparent, the title....
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The President is missing
The President Is Missing was the book event of 2018. The political thriller, officially written by...
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Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Upmost Happiness (2017)
The international breakthrough came for Arundhati Roy with her debut novel The God of Small Things...
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Brexit opponents discover an interest in poetry
Brexit is a portmanteau of the words “Britain” and “exit.” It became the short name for the...
Read MoreKazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant (2015)
Image: Ishiguro in 2005. Photo by Mariusz Kubik In 2017, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Kazuo Ishiguro, a British author of Japanese origin (born 1954 in Nagasaki) and Booker prizewinner. The prize motivation: Isiguro...
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Thinking about the future – shaping the present: What can utopias contribute
This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Die Zukunft denken Utopias are designs of imagined...
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Margaret Atwoods Klassiker The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) – neu gelesen
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Die Zukunft denkenEine Dystopie aus den 1980ern The...
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Zurück in die Zukunft: Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888)
This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Die Zukunft denkenDer Blick zurück Looking Backward...
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Umweltfreundlich und sozial stabil: Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia (1975)
This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Die Zukunft denken Ein Kultroman der...
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Fortschritt als Verwirklichung von Utopien: Welche Utopien brauchen wir heute?
This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Die Zukunft denken Je bedrohlicher die Realität,...
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