Features Interview Books "Not Just Recognition, but Shame": Abdulrazak Gurnah on Berlin's Colonial Past Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah talks to HEIST about colonialism's afterlife in Berlin, museum basements and the story of Bayume Mohamed Husen. Aug 31, 2026
News Books AI Is an Unknown AI Buying Up Rare Berlin Books, Then Destroying Them? A Canadian company placed repeated automated orders at Berlin antiquarian shops. The books were shipped to Chicago. Experts suspect AI training. Aug 26, 2026
Interview Books AfD Dagmar Herzog on the "Sexy Racism" of the AfD In her book The New Fascist Body, historian Dagmar Herzog has provided one of the most clear-eyed analyses of the German far right. Aug 14, 2026
