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Halensee

by Ryan Ruby ,

A father’s guide to Nabokov’s Berlin

Remains of the Day

by Christa Wolf , Katy Derbyshire ,

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…

Road of Bad Intentions

by Joseph Roth ,

From an article written by Joseph Roth for the newspaper Neue Berliner Zeitung in 1921 and included in The Hotel Years, a collection of Roth’s journalism out last month from…

Mauer Park

by Diane Meyer ,

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by Stefan Boness ,

A Different Kind of Father

by Jonathan Franzen ,

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…