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  • The Auflauf

    A newsletter-magazine about books and more, from—and in the spirit of—Berlin.

  • Tobias Ryan

    writer, translator | editor @ Minor Literature[s]

  • Marcel Krueger

    Run out the boat, my broken comrades. Writings on European identity and memory.

  • Gabriel Flynn

    Gabriel Flynn is a writer based in Berlin and the author of Poor Ghost!

  • Alexander Wells

    Berlin-based critic and essayist. Writing at The Guardian, The Baffler, The Drift, Meanjin, History Today. Ex-Berliner books editor, now deputy cultural attaché for The Auflauf

  • Sanders Isaac Bernstein

    writer, lapsed academic, drama critic in exile

  • Mathilde Montpetit

    PhD candidate; editor at The Auflauf and the Public Domain Review.

  • Kate McNaughton

    Writer, Translator Berlin, Paris, London

  • Julia Bosson

    writer in Berlin & editor of the Diasporist

  • Hunter Dukes

    Hunter Dukes is the managing editor of Cabinet magazine and The Public Domain Review. He founded Glotta, an annual print magazine on Hydra, Greece, in 2025.

  • Nora Biette-Timmons

    Some thoughts on books (and other things).

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