July 2018 - Page 2

Cavafy: the lighthouse of Alexandria

If you still haven't had the chance to encounter C.P. Cavafy during your literary adventures, maybe you will be happy to let this lighthouse of Alexandria guide you through centuries of Greek history - and timeless insights into the human condition.

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Feline and Strange: love and “Your Life”

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Dating in our modern world is complicated. "And they lived happily ever after" is not as easy as the fairy tales told us.

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Racial terror and remembrance: beyond a single story

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An American scholar in Leipzig asks: What can the US learn from Germany's successful experience memorializing its atrocities? #NeverAgain

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Sacred Games: a “spider net” from India

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Netflix is spreading its reach all over the world. The digital giant now enters the Indian market full-on with its first Indian original, the ensnaring thriller "Sacred Games." Here's an enthusiastic review from a Leipzig-based filmmaker.

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Questioning the “higher female calling”

In 1.7, Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi shows us the broken child, she shows us the broken vessel, which she is gluing piece by piece with molten gold. #LOFFT #Leipzig

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Drifter in Leipzig: “arms reaching for the sky, like trees”

"That Drifter's 'Moonstones' can be found floating around the internet with only scraps of streams and downloads says more about that doomed scuffle for attention indie artists are facing than about the quality of the music itself - because from the first listen I was floored."

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