IT IS a regrettable fact in the publishing world that some books get the reputation of being unpublishable. Either they are too long or too short or too prolix or simply reader-proof. James Joyce’s ...

The twin pillars of Alfred Döblin’s epochal 480-page 1929 German-language novel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deeply influential 15-hour miniseries, first broadcast in 1980, together create an ...

In a radical departure, the latest cinema adaptation of Alfred Döblin's great Weimar-era novel updates the story with an African refugee as the protagonist. In Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin ...

The session will focus on Doblin’s famous novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, which has recently been published in Persian by Lahita Publications in Tehran. Written in 1929, the book is about a murderer, ...

Editor’s Note: Alfred Döblin, the Weimar-era author of ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz,’ was born on this day in 1878. To honor this occasion, we revisit this award-winning story about the writer’s connection ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? “What is Alexanderplatz in Berlin?” asked Walter Benjamin in his review ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Alfred Doblin’s 1929 novel ’Berlin Alexanderplatz’ was a seminal work that cast its lot in with the German underclass just when the fast-growing Nazi party was elaborating the myth of the master race.