Not a political person

My Berlin probably peaked on 9th November 2014. In a spacious borrowed flat in Mitte, not far from trendy Arkonaplatz, I had countersigned a passport application for a baby just born to friends: Briti

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Michael Chabon’s novel of superheroes and villains reborn as opera

Alexander Skarsgård as the leader of a gay London biker gang, training a young sub for a BDSM relationship? For many of us, Pillion might sound uncannily like a big-screen adaptation of our private fa

Wim Wenders turned 80 this summer. He started making films six decades ago, in 1967. Unbelievable! In the 1980s and early 1990s, freshers would tack posters of Paris, Texas on their dorm room walls—ne

Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history