By Christa Wolf (1929–2011), from One Day a Year, a journal that she kept each September 27 from 1960 until her death. The most recent volume will be published next month by Seagull Books. Wolf was the author of The Quest for Christa T and numerous other novels. Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire.

friday, september 27, 2002, berlin–woserin

Following the usual morning rituals, the newspaper. Headlines: whether the United States will start a war in Iraq; eight killed in new Middle East violence; genocide indictment against Miloševic in The Hague; Israeli rocket attack on Hamas.…