• Lists

    January, February, March 2021: 15 (+) Most-Anticipated Books

    Who is to say what 2021 will have to offer us – and if it will be better than 2020. But one thing I am sure about: There will be some wonderful books to guide us through the year, to make us think (and re-think), feel and question. And also just entertain along the ride. January Alaya Dawn Johnson: Reconstruction: Stories Synopsis: “In Reconstruction, award-winning writer and musician Johnson digs into the lives of those trodden underfoot by the powers that be: from the lives of vampires and those caught in their circle in Hawai’i to a taxonomy of anger put together by Union soldiers in the American Civil War, these…

  • Interview

    Podcast #1: Sharon Dodua Otoo

    Sharon Dodua Otoo describes herself as “Black British mother, activist, author and editor”. She has published two novellas in English, the things i am thinking while smiling politely (2012) and Synchronicity (2014), and is the editor of the English-language book series Witnessed which focusses on the experiences of Black people in Germany. In 2016 Otoo won the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann prize for her German short story “Herr Gröttrupp setzt sich hin” (Herr Gröttrup Sits Down). Currently, she is working on her first novel in German which will be published in 2020. In this interview, we speak about how the experiences as a writer and editor inform each other, if some stories…