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Posted inFeature

The Fact-Check and the Fury: A Chat With the Writers and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue

by Brendan O'Meara July 21, 2022November 9, 2022

In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Leigh Baldwin and Sean Williams about co-writing “Follow the Leader.”

Illustration of male face surrounded by flags and people with hands raised
Posted inNonfiction

How Vladimir Putin Helped ‘Nazify’ Modern Germany

by Longreads July 6, 2022October 11, 2022

Rainer Sonntag was a far-right vigilante. He was also a Communist spy.

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing

Listen to the Sound of My Voice

by Seyward Darby April 5, 2021October 19, 2022

How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.

Posted inBusiness, Crime, Current Events, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction

The Silencing of #MeToo Reporting in Germany

by Seyward Darby January 28, 2021October 19, 2022

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Feature, Featured, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

All Hail the Rat King

by Adrian Daub December 11, 2019December 30, 2022

From Martin Luther to The Nutcracker, Germany’s original national nightmare was a tangled knot of writhing rats.

Posted inStory

On Truth and Lying in the Extra German Sense

by Rebecca Schuman June 20, 2019October 27, 2022

What’s the German word for “the world’s most forthright people have deceit in their DNA”?

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

by Longreads October 10, 2018October 19, 2022

One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, History, Nonfiction, Quotes

“99 Luftballons” and the Grim Fairy Tales of ’80s West Germany

by benhuberman April 6, 2018October 19, 2022

On storytelling in the shadow of Chernobyl, U.S. military planes, and not-so-distant German history.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Children of ‘The Cloud’ and Major Tom: Growing Up in the ’80s Under the German Sky

by benhuberman April 5, 2018October 19, 2022

On the 70-year-long presence of American air bases in Germany, and how it has shaped the memory and sense of place of several generations of Germans.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Last Resort

by benhuberman March 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Private clinics in Germany sell cancer patients hope — and mixed results — at exorbitant prices.

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