The Berlin Journal
Published annually, the Berlin Journal gathers essays, fiction, interviews, and artist portfolios by the Academy’s fellows and guests—a record of the ideas taking shape at the Hans Arnhold Center.
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Essays, fiction, and artist portfolios from the current issue of the Berlin Journal.
Past Issues of the Berlin Journal
Browse the full archive, from the first issue to today—more than two decades of writing and artwork by fellows of the Academy.
Issue 31 (Fall 2017)
Issue 31 of the Berlin Journal focuses on issues of identity, with essays by Kristen Monroe, Nancy Foner, Ussama S. Makdisi, Jacqueline Ross, and Josh Kun, fiction by Thomas Chatterton Williams, V.V. Ganeshananthan, and Carole Maso, and essays by Peter Schmelz, Paul Reitter, Dilip Gaonkar, and Jill Abramson, artist portfolios by A.L. Steiner and Ran…
Issue 30 (Fall 2016)
Issue 30 of the Berlin Journal focuses on Berlin renewals, with essays by Esra Ackan, Han Ong, Leonard Barkan, and Timothy Brown, as well as an artist portfolios by Trenton Doyle Hancock and Daniel Joseph Martinez, and new historical essays by Kate Brown, Michael J. Watts, Jennifer R. Davis, Virag Molnar, as well as a…
Issue 29 (Fall 2015)
The fall 2015 issue of the Berlin Journal focuses on crises and convergences in the German-American relationship since WWII, with articles by Josef Joffe, Karsten Voigt, Philipp Gassert, and William I. Hitchcock, and a section on remembering Tempelhof with the “Candy Bomber” Gahl Halvorsen, and retired Air Force sergeant Michael Hoth, as well as new…
Issue 28 (Spring 2015)
The spring 2015 issue of the Berlin Journal focuses on digitalization and the web, with articles by Evgeny Morozov, Daniel Rosenberg, and William Urrichio; “Can We Save the Internet,” with Andrew Keen, Norbert Riedel, and Sandro Gaycken, and an excerpt from Joshua Cohen’s then-forthcoming Book of Numbers, as well as an artist portfolio by Sanford…
Issue 27 (Fall 2014)
The fall 2014 issue of the Berlin Journal includes a architectural portfolio by the firm Barkow Leibinger, with an essay by Hal Foster, reflections on modern architecture by Beatrice Colomina, a suite of fiction in Berlin from Jonathan Lethem, Nicole Krauss, and Adam Ross, historian Monica Black on spiritual redemption in postwar Germany, essays on…
Issue 26 (Spring 2014)
The spring 2014 issue includes a focus section on responsibility, with articles by Claus Offe and Michael Ignatieff, new work by Kiran Desai, a photo portfolio by LaToya Ruby Frazier, and articles by historians James Trophy and Brian Linn, and a report on the inauguration of the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum. Download the PDF of…