The Passenger: Berlin

The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin—in the series that’s “like a literary vacation” ( Publishers Weekly ). In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the past and into the future. The abandoned ruins, the hidden gems found at the flea market, the illegal