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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 1
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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 2
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Literature in Castro’s Cuba
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Literature Is Money, and Other News
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Women Hold Up Half the Sky
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Papa’s Risqué Mash Note, and Other News
Publicity still of Marlene Dietrich in No Highway. Image via Wikimedia Commons “Drunk and naked I would advance from the rear, or your rear, wearing evening clothes.” A ribald note from Hemingway to...
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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 1
Life on the Karl-Marx-Allee, Block C South. Read Part 2 here. © WalcherBild Fridolin Walcher 2014 In the late eighties, the German Democratic Republic was bleeding people like money; the Iron Curtain...
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Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 2
Life on the Karl-Marx-Allee. Read Part 1 here. Karl-Marx-Allee Block C South, 1951. Philipp and Quentin live in an apartment next to the Rose Garden, in Block D North, a comely segment of the...
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4: “Here Was the Famous Voice”
“A Farce Written in Human Blood,” pp. 70–89 This is the fourth entry in our Mating Book Club. Read along. So here he is, after all this setup: Denoon—the anthropologist beyond anthropology, the man who...
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Literature in Castro’s Cuba
Lockwood on the baseball field with Castro, 1964. © 2016 Lee Lockwood/TASCHEN. Late in 1959, the photojournalist Lee Lockwood flew to Cuba to witness the end of Batista’s regime. After a long search,...
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Literature Is Money, and Other News
From the cover of Secondhand Time. There’s a great Tom Waits song called “What’s He Building in There?” that I’ve thought about a lot as we ponder the Trump transition: “He’s hiding from us,” Waits...
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Women Hold Up Half the Sky
See Red Women’s Workshop, Women’s Day March (detail), 1975. A calendar for 1977 by the British art collective See Red Women’s Workshop shows the month of February as a chutes-and-ladders-type “game...
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