A beach bar next to the Spree river. Photo: iStock In the once famous song Berlin By Night, a proto-punk band, PVC, sang in gawky school English about their city: “You don’t see them all day/They only ...

Some years ago, when the writer Martin Gottfried was finishing up work on his beautifully produced history of “Broadway Musicals,” he received a gift from Irving Berlin. The composer, then in his late ...

Jan Morris explores Berlin's never-ending struggle to become a world-class city This is the only book I have ever reviewed that has actually given me bad dreams not because of the specific horrors ...