The Berlin Journal - American Academy in Berlin

The Night Woman

Fiction by Lauren Groff
A night in the woods

by Ying Zhang
Exemplary deaths of premodern Chinese individuals

Fiction by Alexandra Chreiteh
Or, Who killed Issam Sukkar?

by Joshua Sellers
The Supreme Court and the future of democracy

by Suzanne L. Marchand
The remarkable diversity of Biedermeier porcelain

by Alexander Rehding
Do aliens like human music?

by Damián Fernández
Rebellion, legitimacy, and the Visigothic quest for order after Rome

with an introduction by Jan Tumlir

by Etel Solingen
Global supply chains and geopolitics

by Javiera Barandiarán
Lithium mining, mineral explorations, and the barriers of environmental science

by Lawrence Douglas
Aggression, atrocity, and the Verbrecherstaat

An Interview with Gail Halvorsen

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.

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