Our wonderful Literary Parlor returns with a very special holiday edition: Svetlana interviewed some of her Gen Z students and they share some of their own poetry with us.
MoreIn our first Literary Parlor column of 2021, Svetlana sat down with South African author Zachariah Rapola to talk about his writing process, his influences and his two most recent works.
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DOK 2023 Preview: The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film returns from 8 October to 15 October 2023.
It’s almost one thousand years since the Benedictine monastery at Zeitz was founded, and just ten years since local artists
Hermanos Gutiérrez, a Swiss-Ecuadorian duo that released one of the best albums of 2022, plays in Leipzig this weekend.
Literary Parlor: the “unending flow” of Maes
Author of the novella "Newborn," Agustín Maes spoke to Svetlana Lavochkina about his beginnings, his idols, his process, as well as the COVID crisis and how he's coping with it as a writer, including something he refers to as his "Evening Plague Walk."
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Our literature columnist, Svetlana Lavochkina, got a chance to talk with Fiona Sampson, acclaimed poet and author of an upcoming biography on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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The sea The sea as a seascape In a frame over the dining table The sea a forever moving element
Goodbye. Das große Fressen ist vorbei. Die Zunge ist gelockert. Der Wein schiebt das Karussell an, der Wein hält und
We talk to the brilliant author and literary scholar Omar Sabbagh, London-born of Lebanese parents, currently working as Associate Professor at the American University in Dubai. He moves in between the worlds of writing academic papers, poetry and prose.
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I walk nervously into the bar of a hotel in the center of Leipzig, not knowing what to expect. Maybe
The sea The sea as a seascape In a frame over the dining table The sea a forever moving element
Goodbye. Das große Fressen ist vorbei. Die Zunge ist gelockert. Der Wein schiebt das Karussell an, der Wein hält und
"I try to treat anything magical, or surreal, or possibly out of the framework of waking life, as entirely real, and concrete, and then let it appear in the poems." - Robert Krut, in an interview with Svetlana Lavochkina
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I walk nervously into the bar of a hotel in the center of Leipzig, not knowing what to expect. Maybe
The poesie book of Eva Goldberg traces the escape of the Goldberg family prior to the start of the Second
This book has been accompanying me for the last few years. It is a series of books actually, the famous Remembrance