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SCENE: Alexander Wells helps close the Museum of Lies
Lügenmuseum. Photo by Alexander Wells
Today’s extra scoop is the second entry in our new series, SCENE: short essays that set out, as in the Central European feuilleton tradition (or as in the ‘talk of the town’), to capture something abou...
Tom McCarthy: ‘The real’s not there yet. It has to be invented.’
Credit to Kate Joyce for the Santa Fe Institute
It can be so easy to succumb to despair about the future of literature—and, really, the future of everything. To speak to Tom McCarthy, the visionary European author of novels like Remainder,...
October Books: Duncan, Abou Ghazal, Tannahill
A Thought Without Collision (Tuskar Rock)
Adrian Duncan
On the first page of his new novel, Berlin-based Irish author Adrian Duncan provides his reader with clear instruction: we are to read this book as if sitting at a piano—as if p...
SCENE: Mathilde Montpetit, in search of a Nobel pick, goes to Laidak
Schankwirtschaft Laidak. Photo by Mathilde Montpetit.
Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate six months of The Auflauf on Saturday but especially to our readers—Kate McNaughton, Hilda Hoy, Tobias Ryan, and Dženana Vucic—to Lettrét...
Rob Madole on Ruth Rehmann: ‘This book rewrites German literary history’
Photo courtesy of Rob Madole
Ruth Rehmann’s Illusions opens on a skyscraper—the Wellis Corporation’s headquarters—and on the former circus performer who cleans its windows. It is the last day of September, and he is peering through the win...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
A newsletter-magazine about books and more, from—and in the spirit of—Berlin.
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.
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
PhD candidate; editor at The Auflauf and the Public Domain Review.
Writer, Translator Berlin, Paris, London
Gabriel Flynn is a writer based in Berlin and the author of Poor Ghost!
writer, lapsed academic, drama critic in exile
Some thoughts on books (and other things).
writer in Berlin & editor of the Diasporist
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