‘The literary name and fame of the city of Berlin, if not the idea of modern city literature altogether, are founded on the novel in your hands,’ Michael Hofmann tells us in his afterword to his new ...

As we approach its hundredth anniversary, John Yorke explores the long-vanished world of German writer Alfred Döblin’s Expressionist masterpiece, Berlin Alexanderplatz. Set in 1928 at the height of ...

It took me over four months to finish watching Berlin Alexanderplatz that Criterion released on seven discs. As with the other two my favorite TV Series (Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" and ...

In this visually stunning cinematic update of Alfred Döblin's classic novel, Francis, a refugee, arrives in Berlin with high hopes, promising that he will be a decent person, but finds the city and ...

The final season of Babylon Berlin is finally a-go. Cameras are rolling on Season 5, with the first picture teasing more action for Volker Bruch’s police inspector Gereon in the German drama.

The 2025 Berlinale is just around the corner (13-23 February), and for Tricia Tuttle’s first year as festival boss the former director of the BFI London Film Festival and her programming team have ...

“How much longer Jewish People—No-People?” is the title under which Alfred Doeblin, the famous author of “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” makes an eloquent appeal to the Jews of the world. It consists of ...

Meghana Keshavan covers biotech and contributes to The Readout newsletter. It’s been a hard week for the psychedelics pioneer Rick Doblin. First, the Food and Drug Administration declined to approve ...

Lykos Therapeutics is slashing around 75% of its staff following the FDA's decision not to approve its MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) last week, with founder Rick ...

The fifth and final season of the global hit series “Babylon Berlin” has received an official green light, and eight new episodes will be shot this fall. “Babylon Berlin” writing-directing team of ...