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Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:00 AM

Destination: Berlin

The past of this eternally youthful "city of the world" is captured in the work of journalist Joseph Roth, author John le Carré and psychiatrist and novelist Alfred Döblin.
By Christine Smallwood

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  • Thursday, August 17, 2006 05:21 AM

    Berlin, etc.

    For an engaging, brief, thoughtful meditation on Berlin, and for a bracing tour through some other urban disasters and triumphs, I highly recommend ‘The City In Mind’ by James Howard Kunstler.

    Also, Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, wrote at length in his memoir ‘Inside the Third Reich’ about the plans they made, and only partly achieved, for an imperial capitol filled with monuments to the Fuehrer. Fascinating and spooky.

    —Carl Pultz Read Carl Pultz's other letters

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