The Berlin Journal - American Academy in Berlin

Out of this World

By Karen Feldman
On Arendt’s adages and Brecht’s poetic sins

By Saul Noam Zaritt
Taking the schundroman seriously

By Ross Perlin
The endangered language crisis

Fiction by Justin Torres
Scenes from a bedside and beyond

By Chloe Thurston
How America fell in love with stocks

By Elizabeth Kolbert
What the fate of Greenland means for Earth

By Oona Hathaway
The breakdown of international humanitarian law

By Jamaica Kincaid
The words that echo through life

By Daniel Jütte
A German kaleidoscope

By Jefferson Cowie
White freedom, federal power, the Black vote

By Adam Shatz
The spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders

By Agnes Mueller
Negotiating identity in German fiction now

This is the online edition of the Berlin Journal. A Magazine from the American Academy in Berlin

Publisher: Daniel Benjamin

Editor: R. Jay Magill, Jr.

Deputy Editor: Kristen Allen

Managing Editor: Renata Cigler

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