BURKE, VA — Taking photos during travel is a must, but not everyone turns those moments into a book. Burke resident Kaushik Mukerjee did just that with a photography book focusing on graffiti from ...
But there is another anniversary to which I had something of a front row seat on history: the fall of the Berlin Wall. It happened on Nov. 9, 1989, and for most of us who remembered when it was ...
Last week it commemorated the 36 th anniversary of that magical moment on November 9 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and the ...
THE PLAQUE at 7 Schönholzer Strasse, in the trendy Prenzlauer Berg district of east Berlin, is easy to miss. Yet it marks one of the most astonishing episodes in the grim history of communist East ...
John Irving once stated that after reading Grass' "The Tin Drum" in 1962, he knew that "all I ever wanted to do was write novels, and read them; was to be funny and to be angry; was to stay funny and ...
The German author Daniel Kehlmann, most recently of the novel “Tyll,” recommends books that explore the city’s painful past and dynamic present. By Daniel Kehlmann Read Your Way Around the World is a ...
The front page of The Tennessean on Nov. 10, 1989 declared: "East Germans dance on Wall," and displayed a photo of three men, ...
West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early 11 November 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and ...