The 75th Berlin International Film Festival kicks off next week, and this year’s line-up looks very promising... Here are our ...

‘Never has the spray of speech as it is actually spoken so drenched the reader to the bone,’ Walter Benjamin wrote of Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). It is a braying novel that echoes ...

‘The literary name and fame of the city of Berlin, if not the idea of modern city literature altogether, are founded on the novel in your hands,’ Michael Hofmann tells us in his afterword to his new ...

Die Frau selbst blätterte in der englischen Ausgabe und erzählte von ihrer neuerlichen Lektüre von Alfred Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz: »I got through it.« Als ich berichtete, ich sei in einer extrem ...

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life. ... Feb 4, 2025 ...