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.

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 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 ...

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an urgent telegram reaches Carl Bischoff, a floundering East German bricklayer-turned-student in his mid-20s: “we need help please do come immediately ...

For most adult Americans, postwar Berlin is a flickery newsreel of the 1948 Allied airlift, the construction of the wall sealing off the Russian sector in 1961, and its joyous destruction 28 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...

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 ...

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 ...