The Berlin Journal - American Academy

Left Alone

by Lois Banner
Greta Garbo's search for solitude

by Tom Conley
Surveying the origins of the French cartographic imagination

by Wolf Schäfer
Why has Germany done so well in the fight against coronavirus?

by Dominic Boyer
Learning about longing from a seventeenth-century medical dissertation

by Amanda Anderson
Rumination in the time of coronavirus

by Spring 2020 Fellows
Thoughts on the pandemic from the Wannsee and abroad

by Denise Gamon
Filmmaker and spring 2020 fellow Kevin Jerome Everson pushes on

by Carolyn Chen
Learning the instrument of philosophers and sages

by Yvette Christiansë
Policing the oceans for slave ships and regulating the fate of the rescued

by Liliane Weissberg
A brief history of the postal card

by Paul La Farge
New owners and old apparitions

by Veronika Fuechtner
An interview with Thomas Mann's grandson Frido

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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