it dawned on him that the Berlin Wall was disappearing down the drain. This month marks the 25th anniversary of those events. Publishers have predictably responded with new books about Berlin.

The courtyard is open to the public. Here are four books to help you learn more about the history behind the wall — and about how it came down. "The Berlin Wall: An Interactive Modern History ...

Construction of the Berlin Wall started on August 13, 1961. In October of the next year,* *{: .apple-converted-space}The New Yorker* *{: .apple-converted-space}published “Die Mauer” (“The ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

She was born in a country that no longer exists, in an East German hospital on Nov. 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. Jamila al-Yousef’s birthday is part of history, the date ...

What books or authors should I bring with ... One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin, in the shadow of the wall (quite literally). A translation by Jonathan Franzen ...

The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall (Basic Books, 2015), which centers on the events of Nov. 9 and the figures who helped open East Berlin—and the rest of Soviet Germany—to the West. What was ...

Teenage antics behind the Berlin Wall – and Jonathan Franzen approves Thomas Brussig’s novella The Short End of the Sonnenallee is a ruefully funny gem that thrums with human detail 4/5 ...

These books will take you from murder in present ... history-making night when The Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989.

The Berlin Wall entered the history books in 1961. It stood for 28 years as a stark testament to the differences between life on one side of that wall and the other. Hard to believe it's been 25 ...