The Needle: Berlin

Musing about Nazi Exiles in Mexikoplatz Station

‘All the streets around here were named after South American countries, so that when their soldiering grandfathers return from exile,

Getting a glass of water in a German restaurant is not an easy task. Unless you are willing to pay

Asparagus season makes me uneasy. This is a problem living in Germany, because Spargelzeit* is unavoidable. The alien fern crops

New York in the seventies without the crime? New York with a type-B personality? The way ‘the East Village used

On Hobrechtstraße in Neukölln, that corner of Kreuzkölln between the Lebanese community on Sonnenallee and the canal, there is a

Gerhard Richter was flying to New York on September 11th 2001. His exhibition 40 Years of Painting was opening at MOMA

Walk through this door and into the story of many English speakers in Berlin. Jim Hudson worked for an architecture practice.

Potsdamer Platz is suddenly teeming with people. There isn’t the density of midtown Manhattan but, restrict your peripheral vision, you

I am about to visit one of Berlin’s most beautiful, undiscovered and under-appreciated interiors. Take the 100 bus through the

It’s winter and there is finally snow on the ground. I go to the Literature House on Fasanenstr. 23 in

Once upon a time, artists moved to Berlin because it was cheap. These days, they move to Berlin because they’ve heard