Walking in Berlin

<h4>Michael Blum is a New York-based writer and designer. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.</h4>

Michael Blum

Reveries from a Twilight City: The Great Lost Portrait of Weimar Berlin

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

One-Way Street

The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness

Always One More Time: On Walter Benjamin’s “One-Way Street” and “The Storyteller”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Michael Blum is a New York-based writer and designer. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.

Michael Blum

Articles

Reveries from a Twilight City: The Great Lost Portrait of Weimar Berlin

Always One More Time: On Walter Benjamin’s “One-Way Street” and “The Storyteller”