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Hollow men: What’s going wrong with male characters in literature?
Contemporary fiction isn’t doing men justice in their one-dimensional machismo portrayals, but a handful of Berliner authors […]
Review
Fail Worse: Discover a better, more meta, Berlin
This slim, clever novel from Habib William Kherbek is a masterful piece of Berlin-based autofictional satire.
Books
Consider the nightingale: The birdwatching books of Berlin
As Berlin’s birdlife celebrates the onset of spring, take a tour through the boom of avian literature […]
Review
What to read now: Yevgenia Belorusets, Karosh Taha and Clemens Meyer
Our book editor on the journal of Ukrainian life under attack, War Diary, German reunification novel, While […]
Books
2022 in review: Berlin’s best books of the year
Our editors pick their favourite reads of the year from the local scene and further afield.
Editor's choice
What to read this month: October 2022
A feminist novel from the former east, a German Book Prize winning epic, and swampland non-fiction make […]
