Venezuela: Hände weg, an op-ed
Venezuela may feel far away, but Berliners are pulling together with a plea for peace. Tatiana Abarzua, a German citizen with Venezuelan roots, explains we should care.
View ArticleTanz im August: The art of homage
Homages abound at Tanz im August, especially in regards to the Japanese dance form of butoh. Lily Kelting checks out two: one a copy of late butoh master Kazuo Ohno and another a queer reading of the...
View ArticleTanz im August: Together apart
Lily Kelting checks out the loveably split "Jessica and me" from Cristiana Morganti.
View ArticleSeymour Gris: Tegel's gotta close!
Seymour loves Tegel, no question about it, but he also knows when it's time to say goodbye.
View ArticleTanz im August: O bella ciao, bella ciao
Lily Kelting got involved with the marchers of Anne Collod’s replay of Anna Halprin’s 1967 "Blank Placard Dance". Was it revolutionary?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: If you vote for a racist person, you might be racist
The AfD and their voters hate Germany's integration commissioner because they don't believe in integration. That's the whole point.
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Xiaolu Guo
The best-selling British Chinese writer/filmmaker Xiaolu Guo presents "Once Upon a Time in the East", a memoir of her young life between East and West (Sep 8, 22:30).
View ArticleThe ILB Blog: Welcome to the International Lit Fest!
Whether online or IRL, the action is out in City West from now through Sep 16 as we cover highlights of Berlin's 17th International Literature Festival with bookie bloggers Amy Leonard, Anunita...
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid launches his hotly anticipated fourth novel "Exit West", a novel about migration with a sci-fi twist, on September 9 at Berliner Festspiele.
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Javier de Isusi
Graphic novelist Javier de Isusi speaks about his first German translation, Ich habe Wale gesehen, alongside Syrian graphic novelist Hamid Sulaiman on September 10 as part of the festival’s Graphic...
View ArticleThe ILB Blog: About a Roy
Literary darling and incendiary author Arundhati Roy returns to literature after 20 years with "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness". Our reporters were on the scene to witness her rapturous return.
View ArticleThe ILB Blog: Long, long night of democracy
The man of the hour was Edward Snowden, but many prominent writers and thinkers graced the ILB stage for the first day of the International Congress for Democracy.
View ArticleThe ILB Blog: The refugees not here
Festival head Ulrich Schreiber and Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa share insight into their project Refugees Worldwide. The book of the same name will be launched on Sun, 18:00 at Buchhändlerkeller.
View ArticleThe ILB Blog: Democracy rules
Saturday’s “Focus USA” panel, part of the International Congress for Democracy proceedings, was disappointingly homogenous in viewpoint, but the “A-Social Media" panel provided some lively debate.
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed reads from her latest novel "The Orchard of Lost Souls", in which she uses the family as a prism for big power machinations in Somalia (Sep 12, 21:00, Berliner Festspiele).
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Elnathan John
The Nigerian author, satirist and laywer launches his latest book "Born on a Tuesday", a bildungsroman which deals with the rise of radical Islam in northern Nigeria through the naïve, inquisitive eyes...
View ArticleThe ILB Blog: Rapping it up
The weekend ended with a bang – and some insults – as the International Congress for Democracy drew to a close.
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Brian Castro
Hong Kong-born, Australian-based Brian Castro comes to lit fest with his latest novel "Blindess and Rage", a novel written in the unusual form of cantos, tracing the life of an Australian writer and...
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Charlotte Wood
Australian author Charlotte Wood will read from her last prize-winning novel "The Natural Way of Things", which has been dubbed a "masterpiece of feminist horror" (Sep 13, 18:00).
View ArticleILB author spotlight: Amanda Lee Koe
Amanda Lee Koe discusses her first collection of short stories, "Ministry of Moral Panic", which explores the contemporary national identity of her native Singapore through a range of idiosyncratic...
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