Der Lenz ist da!

How glorious that there are two words for spring in German. There is the more familiar 'die Frühling' and then the literary 'der...

Pure Gold

Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives is the progressive, ballsy alternative to Enid Blyton. There's the same lust for adventure,...

The Eternal Objectivist

Berlin in the 1920s and 30s will never lose its lustre. Marlene Dietrich, Christopher Isherwood, Kurt Weill... all denizens of an endless pa...