Berlin Archives

Berlin

Dance Factory

by Lauren Oyler,

On the Friday night before New Year’s Eve, my boyfriend and I were in line for the toilets at the techno club Berghain, in Berlin, discussing Buddhism. I’m usually skeptical…

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,

Untitled

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…