Berlin Review Audio

In this episode of Berlin Review Audio, writer Lianna Mark reads her essay "Better Living Through Self-Curation," originally published in the winter online edition of Berlin Review. The piece responds to Vincenzo Latronico’s widely discussed novel Perfection, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize after the publication of its English translation.

In her essay, Mark looks beyond the polarized reactions to the novel and examines the cultural economy behind authenticity. What does it mean to perform sincerity in a literary marketplace that rewards stories that are easily packaged and exported? And how does self-curation shape not only our lives but also the narratives that circulate globally?

In dieser Episode spricht Tobias Haberkorn mit der ukrainischen Autorin und Fotografin Yevgenia Belorusets über ihre Heimatstadt Kiew im dritten und bald vierten Kriegsjahr.

One of the first essays published in Berlin Review was Logan February's "Sans Souci"

In this episode the Nigerian poet and essayist reads an excerpt from the piece, written while living in Berlin on a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. The essay begins with a walk through Sanssouci Park in Potsdam and continues into a meditation on exile, colonial inheritance, loneliness as a luxury and what it means to stand inside and outside a place at once.

After reading an excerpt of the essay, Logan is joined by the writer and translator Miriam Stoney for a conversation about translation, ghosts, poetic license and the tension around what language can and cannot express.

You can read the rest of Logan February's essay "Sans Souci" at blnreview.de

On the launch night for Berlin Reader 3, Editor Samir Sellami sat down with two Berlin writers, Samanta Schweblin and Ricardo Domeneck to discuss literary magazines and the relationship between writers and readers.

Tobias Haberkorn speaks with critic and writer Lauren Oyler about her turn to poetry, attention as a literary practice, fleeting intimacy and what it means to not go home at all.