Berlin Alexanderplatz, immigration reform, psychoanalysis

Adam Thirlwell on Berlin Alexanderplatz, Tina Vasquez on the Abolish ICE movement Sponsored by the [Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]( [An Explosion of Pure Fact]( Adam Thirlwell Berlin in 1929 was the junk city, total modernity. It was so modern that no one knew how to live in it, let alone describe it. [Devil]( Jeffrey Yang They told us a story about the devil, mala cosa, small in stature with a beard whose face they could never see clearly who traveled from house to house with a flaming piece of wood, who stole whomever he wanted and, with a flint, gave them three incisions[…]( NYR Daily [Abolish ICE: Beyond a Slogan]( Tina Vasquez The movement has repeatedly been dismissed as little more than the left’s “new rallying cry,” But there can be a community-based alternative to a violent immigration system. [Psychoanalysis and #MeToo Memories]( Avgi Saketopoulou We are accustomed to thinking that trauma happens in real time; but psychoanalysis offers an alternate conception. [October Films]( J. Hoberman Positing a supernatural Berlin where unseen angelic presences hover over the divided city, Wings of Desire is suffused with stoic melancholy. You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from The New York Review. [Update preferences]( The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Unsubscribe](