The Story of the Duchess: Lucrezia, the Tigress
Maggie O’Farrell’s historical fiction, The Marriage Portrait, narrates the life and fate of Lucrezia de’ Medici.
Sharing an (Un)Divided World
Farhan Samanani discusses how human beings can coexist with one another and with each other’s differences.
Exploring the Meaning of Life
What is life? Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse gives answers in the science series at the Literaturherbst.
Frankenstein, the Queer and the Mother
A queer study of Frankenstein, its anti-normative nature and treatment of fatherhood as well as motherhood and femininity.