Oh thermal bath, how I love thee! Your warm, green, salty waters. Your coed naked saunas. You are my excuse to laze around all day in a bathrobe as you cure all that ails me. Bad Saarow, in eastern Brandenburg on the shores of the Scharmuetzelsee, with your treatments for a variety of true medical… Read more »
The phrase “poor but sexy” has become one of the more tiresome clichés about Berlin, even if there are stretches of Kreuzberg south of the Landwehr Canal that still live up to it. More typical of our hometown’s herky-jerky efforts to be modern and glamorous is Holmes Place, the wannabe upscale gym right off Gendarmenmarkt…. Read more »
The phrase “poor but sexy” has become one of the more tiresome clichés about Berlin, even if there are stretches of Kreuzberg south of the Landwehr Canal that still live up to it. More typical of our hometown’s herky-jerky efforts to be modern and glamorous is Holmes Place, the wannabe upscale gym right off Gendarmenmarkt…. Read more »
A collection of two previously published novels written by Christopher Isherwood, published in 1946. Set in pre-World War II Germany, this semi-autobiographical work has just been reissued by New Directions with a forward by Armisted Maupin. It consists of Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935; U.S. title, The Last of Mr. Norris) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939). The… Read more »
Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in November, 1996, and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989. Before that, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. He has also written articles for The Nation and collaborated on film scripts for Swoon… Read more »
Alix Christie cried when she left her red dacha after five years in Berlin. She now lives in London with her Wessi husband and two kids, and is finishing a novel. She is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Other Voices, Salon.com and The… Read more »
Tyler Williams was born in Dallas, Texas in 1983. His work is online at absentmag.org, provokator.org, theivesjargon.org, and catatonics.org. He lives and works in Berlin.
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Sarah LeVine is a British-born anthropologist and writer who lives in Massachusetts. Her most recent book is The Saint of Kathmandu and Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands (Beacon Press, 2008).
