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Practical Stories of 'Radical' (also Practical) Art & Literature from 20th-Century Europe & Beyond.

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Margit Téry’s Final Work

The view from Margit’s studio. (cc-ID Topper Sherwood, 2026)

This is a start of fact-based fiction-in-progress that I cannot compose in Berlin. Only pieces of it will be shared here; the end is years away….. -ts, 6. September 2026.

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Internet 3 Crossroads: Wrangling with AI in Berlin (2026)

Why should we, as human intelligence workers, believe that machines can ever do our jobs?

This is a longer post than usual from me — and longer than I like. It’s an updated rant from one I posted last year….. -ts

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Germany’s Crises of 1923

French soldier guards a coal train during the occupation of the Ruhr Valley in 1923. (Source: Ruhr Museum)

This is Chapter 115 of my unsold manuscript, “The Will to Style: Radical Utopians of the Weimar Bauhaus, 1919-1925.”

NINETEEN-TWEN...

21 days ago
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The Road Not Taken

I stumbled into a piece of French forest, reminding me of a classic poem by Robert Frost.

NORMANDY, France (August 16, 2026) — I’m taking a sabbatical from Berlin, staying in a semi-rural area of northern France.

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'Germany has lost its moral compass'

Police clear a pro-Palestinian camp at Berlin’s Free University in 2024. (Credit: Reuters)

BERLIN (August 8, 2026) — For me, the EU Observer is the best English-language journal covering European news today. This headline on an opinion col...

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    Veteran journalist for Associated Press, TIME, BusinessWeek, Boston Globe, Smithsonian pubs & other US/German clients, Sherwood writes about courageous thinkers of 20th-century art and literature, including “activists” of the Avant Garde/Modern.

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