Christoph Ribbat's areas of interest include contemporary fiction and nonfiction, cultural history, and visual culture. He's the author of a history of waking up, forthcoming in February 2026, and a book about crying and sports (also scheduled for February 2026). Most recent book publication: Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented (London/Chicago: Vallentine Mitchell, 2024). Earlier books on breathing, on Wilbert Olinde Jr., one of the first US basketball pros in Germany, the history of restaurants, and neon. He writes regularly for NZZ Geschichte and Pop: Kultur und Kritik.
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