On this episode of the Berlin Journal, host R. Jay Magill speaks with New Yorker staff writer Joan Acocella, who spent the fall at the American Academy working on a collection of essays tentatively titled "Crime and Punishment," which includes pieces on, among others, the Grimm Brothers, Dracula, Agatha Christie, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and The Sopranos. Then, Spiegel Online editor Charles Hawley joins Jonathan Laurence, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, to talk about Muslim integration in Germany and the cultural tensions it has created. Finishing out the hour, literary translator Peter Constantine discusses his work on Russian writer Anton Chekhov's work and reads a short piece entitled "From the Notebook of A Country Squire," one of Chekhov's many humorous shorts.

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This edition of "The Berlin Journal" features interviews with poet Tom Sleigh, novelist Adam Haslett, a feature piece by Jeff Rosenberg about Wannsee's past, and an interview with James Der Derian.