In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German l...
This review originally appeared in Cleaver Magazine.You push through the small, enclosed, almost claustrophobic rooms at the head of “Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, like an exile from a provincial village, and there you are face to face with Léger’s mas...
Crappy weather, damp that sticks to you. If you look up: cloudy, dirty gray—if you look down: grubby pavement slippery with damp. The illuminated advertisements on Hohenzollernstrasse peer gloomily through the fog. Urban’s Restaurants—Café Vienna. Jazz hits wash towards the entrances in little wa...
It annoyed her no end to see Franz getting more cheerful, while she had hardly any power to torment him now. Seeing Aunt Adelheid insisted on having fresh flowers round that dead baby’s photograph every Sunday, I simply took to arranging them on Sundays myself, without stopping to ask her. For Fr...