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Berlin has long been a city of paradoxes: restless yet reflective, fractured yet fiercely creative. Its streets carry the echoes of history while offering anonymity to those who walk them, making it a natural setting for stories of solitude. In Berlin, loneliness does not always appear as emptiness, but it […]
“Once I left the country of my childhood, I realised those differences were everywhere: in the shape of the street furniture and the painted lines by the side of the road, the strength and colour of the light cast by the streetlamps or the sound of the ambulance sirens as […]
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes) captures the soul of the modern globalised and culturally homogenised society shaped by the constant flow of online images available on the internet which promises the purposeful and uncomplicated life. The reality however does not always live up to these pictures. The […]
“Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.” Karl Scheffler, 1910 At the end of February I spent a few days in Berlin. On my first day I wandered the streets of Berlin, saw the Brandenburg Gate by day and night, visited Friedrich Strasse, Holocaust Memorial, […]