New Issue
These Meetups Are All Write
A guide to Berlin's best writing groups so you can finally finish that novel!
Review
The threshold: Samanta Schweblin’s Good and Evil and Other Stories
Samanta Schweblin has done it again. Her new new book Good and Evil and Other Stories is […]
Book review
‘The Honditsch Cross’: Nationalism’s bitter aftertaste
A transparently biting novella, Ingeborg Bachmann's 'The Honditsch Cross' reflects on fascism's tangled roots.
Editor's column
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 […]
