The 2022-23 Berlin Journal is here! This issue features a range of essays and stories by this year’s class of Berlin Prize fellows: Joshua Sellers on American democracy’s polycrisis; Suzanne L. Marchand on the remarkable diversity of Biedermeier porcelain; strange fiction by Lauren Groff and Alexandra Chreiteh; Cymene Howe on mapping rising global water levels; Alexander Rehding on NASA’s 1970s idea of Earth’s greatest hits, and essays on prisoners in Ming China, the 1837 conflagration of St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace, and traces of Turkish migration in West Berlin, among much more, including book reviews, alumni books, and news from the Academy. (Cover image by Rachid Dahnoun).
The Berlin Journal
The 2022-23 Berlin Journal
The 2022-23 Berlin Journal features a range of essays and fiction by the 2022-23 class of Berlin Prize fellows, news from the Academy, book reviews, and much more.
Published 14 Jun 2023
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