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Sanders Isaac Bernstein

@return2sanders

reader, writer, theatergoer. PhD into memory. Writing in Cabinet, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, Ploughshares, Hypocrite Reader, Full Stop, Majuscule, The London Magazine, newyorker.... https://sandersbernstein.wordpress.com

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Berlin Film Festival Boss to Accept New Advisory Board and “Antisemitism Code of Conduct” (Report) Tricia Tuttle came under fire following pro-Palestinian speeches by Berlinale award winners at this year's awards gala.

the terms are unacceptable. Tuttle should resign
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05.03.2026 14:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

this looks cool

03.03.2026 20:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

have a taste for literature & gossip?

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03.03.2026 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

subscribe to the auflauf! undoubtably berlin's premier gossip-mongering literary review!

03.03.2026 10:29 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

the best new books publication the western hemisphere is THE AUFLAUF: theauflauf.substack.com

03.03.2026 10:10 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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March Books: McDonald, Franck, Ismaïl Poems by Matthew McDonald and novels from Julia Franck and Agri Ismaïl, plus some gossip from our new correspondent.

Another great set of books this month: Matthew McDonald's debut poetry collection @ajbwells.bsky.social; Julia Franck's autobiographical novel @return2sanders.bsky.social; and Agri Ismaïl's account of dislocation and late capitalism @brynstole.bsky.social. Plus some EXPLOSIVE new gossip...

03.03.2026 09:37 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3
The Sea Is There, But We Are Not – diffrakt

#Berlin "The Sea Is There, But We Are Not"
Literature from #Palestine
Reading & conversation with
Alaa Alqaisi, Asmaa Azaizeh, Maha El Hissy @mahaelhissy.bsky.social & Ahmed Saleh, music by Cham Saloum

Heute Abend ab 19:30 Uhr, Eintritt kostenfrei, Eingang rollstuhlgerecht (leider nicht die WCs)

25.02.2026 16:35 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

What's one of the great openings to a story, poem, novel or essay?

24.02.2026 16:39 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 5
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Tobias Ryan: ‘I dealt with it for ten years—now someone else can have it.’ The minor literature[s] Editor-in-Chief on his new novel GLANTZ

In the Auflauf's first monthly author interview, @mathildegm.bsky.social dials up @tobiasvryan.bsky.social in his Parisian garret to talk about unrelatable fiction, @minorliteratures.bsky.social, and the Unreal (European) City of his soul .......

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17.02.2026 17:09 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Tobias Ryan: ‘I dealt with it for ten years—now someone else can have it.’ The minor literature[s] Editor-in-Chief on his new novel GLANTZ

interview @ The Auflauf

with thanks to @mathildegm.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/theaufla...

17.02.2026 09:26 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
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Tobias Ryan: ‘I dealt with it for ten years—now someone else can have it.’ The minor literature[s] Editor-in-Chief on his new novel GLANTZ

@tobiasvryan.bsky.social has written a gross, beautiful, challenging book about a horrible man who won't leave you alone – and I got to talk to him about it for The Auflauf:

17.02.2026 10:22 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Check out The Auflauf, a new substack of Berlin books. Our first course: @mathildegm.bsky.social on Reimann, @brynstole.bsky.social on Clark, & me on Maci. @ajbwells.bsky.social is in the kitchen too helping cook and dish up lit crit, goss & conversations: theauflauf.substack.com

03.02.2026 09:40 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Have all the haters just forgotten about freemasonry?

19.12.2025 17:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Heute um 14 Uhr !

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05.10.2025 08:38 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A few thoughts about the NYT critics shakeup: Theater is one of the hardest of all disciplines to cover as a critic (or reporter). You need to know its language and history. And there's a ton you can and should do to educate yourself. But you can never "catch up." You can't see what you didn't see.>

16.07.2025 15:24 👍 372 🔁 67 💬 4 📌 20
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On Florentina Holzinger’s latest opera, by @return2sanders.bsky.social‬

09.07.2025 16:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A handsome looking novel called Poor Ghost! with endorsements from Claire Messud, Lara Williams, Wendy Erskine, Tim MacGabhann, Julianne Pachico, and Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

A handsome looking novel called Poor Ghost! with endorsements from Claire Messud, Lara Williams, Wendy Erskine, Tim MacGabhann, Julianne Pachico, and Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.

I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.

22.05.2025 13:05 👍 57 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 2
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Dass der Zentralrat besorgt ist vom Beschluss der @die-linke.de, die IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition abzulehnen und die Jerusalem Declaration (JDA) anzunehmen, kann man ihm glauben. Aber seine Argumentation gegen die JDA ist so nicht haltbar. Vier Punkte. 1/ x.com/ZentralratJu...

17.05.2025 05:48 👍 47 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 2

„Dass die IHRA-Definition von Regierungen angenommen wurde, ist weitgehend Ergebnis politischer Kampagnen von Akteuren im Einklang mit der israelischen Regierung. Es gibt ausreichend Belege, dass die IHRA v. illiberalen Kräften instrumentalisiert wird, um Freiheiten & Menschenrechte zu untergraben.“

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Bait and Switch – the Diasporist So what about Chialo’s legacy? No reasonable person could say that his work has consolidated the strength of culture or fostered “social cohesion.” To the contrary, animosity and mistrust now reign be...

An interesting layered take on Joe Chialo and the dismantling of funding for progressive arts projects in Berlin, plus whether mockery helps.
thediasporist.de/bait-and-swi...

12.05.2025 18:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlin Launch: Elegy, Southwest - Lettrétage Reading & Discussion Join us on May 9th for the launch of „Elegy, Southwest“ , the hotly anticipated second novel by Australian-born Berlin author Madeleine Watts. Watts will be joined by local critic...

Book launch in Berlin tomorrow >>>

www.lettretage.de/Termine/berl...

08.05.2025 10:02 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Now get rid of the AfD policies and attitudes that the CDU/CSU has adopted.

03.05.2025 12:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Donate to Help me and my family Rebuild their lives, organized by Alma Family I am alma from Gaza and I am 14 years old.   My family consists of 10 member… Alma Family needs your support for Help me and my family Rebuild their lives

The wonderful people of @almafamily4.bsky.social still need your help!!! Give if you can!!!

03.05.2025 12:43 👍 14 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2
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PARATAXE Symposium XVI = Antipodes: Down under in Berlin – the Australian & New Zealand authors of Berlin Draft program: 13:30: Kick-offWith Alexander Wells and Martin Jankowski 14:00 – 15:30: Panel 1 (in German)NEIGHBOURS. Encounters, translations, suggestions.Keynote: Prof. Anja SchwarzPanel: Joel Scott...

FULL LINEUP for our little festival of Australian and Aoteoroa/New Zealand literature in Berlin on May 24th!! Come see professors, poets, artists, & novelists (& me); come hear about Weiss & Bismarck's bastards & Sebald in the desert & multidirectional war memory >>

stadtsprachen.de/en/event/par...

30.04.2025 08:46 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
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Violence and the road: Vilay Khurana on The Passenger Seat - The Berliner In Vijay Khurana’s debut novel, The Passenger Seat, male friendship is all fun and games - until it isn’t.

www.the-berliner.com/books/vilay-...

COME TO CURIOUS FOX TONIGHT TO SEE THIS LOVELY MAN BUT LESS IN MUD

@berlinbooks.bsky.social

24.04.2025 14:55 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Brasch Words: Remembering a Berlin theatre that spoke truth to power - The Berliner In the year that would have marked Thomas Brasch's 80th birthday, two new plays that interpolate his work pose questions about the transgressive playwright's legacy.

great column on thomas brasch and berlin's political theater by @return2sanders.bsky.social in last month's Berliner mag >>
www.the-berliner.com/stage/thomas...

22.04.2025 11:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In search of “Brodernism”: Where is this maximalist cult of difficulty? - The Berliner It's possible to read literature in translation and not fetishise it – we do it all the time.

in this month's Berliner mag, I waded in to the "brodernism" debate—and called time on the genre of anglophone literary criticism that was designed to go viral on Twitter >>

www.the-berliner.com/books/broder...

11.04.2025 10:18 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 6
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The List Keepers More than 40 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the full scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to access.

More than 40 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the full scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to access.

09.04.2025 11:11 👍 89 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 7

Was für ein Grauen: Der Berliner Kulturzerstörer Joe Chialo soll lt. tagesschau offenbar Kultur-Staatsminister werden.

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