“there is no water / with which we can wash ourselves clean,” writes the Danish poet and novelist Olivia Asta Nordenhof, whose Scandinavian Star series is reviewed in our new Reader 8.
The issue brings together fifteen original essays, some in German, others in English, including pieces on Rainer Werner Fassbinder in prison and Samuel Beckett in Nazi Germany, as well as a true but all too easily dismissed story Adania Shibli kept hearing from Jerusalem schoolgirls in the 1990s.
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