‘Berlin is too big for Berlin’ is the curious title of a book by flâneur Hanns Zischler who jokes about the low population density of this polycentric, extensive city. But ‘Berlin is too big for Berlin’ in another sense: how to live together and keep alive the myth of ‘Berlin, the trendy...
From its very first contact with the West, India has been subject to great mystification. India’s long history, the survival of ancient rituals, and its variety of languages and cultures, continues to fascinate.
Poised between competing ideologies, secularism and piousness, a militaristic nationalism and exceptional openness to foreigners, Turkey defies easy labels and categories.
“Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.”—Brian Phillips