“We’ve Been Waiting for You, Mr. Bezos”
How to one-up your fellow Bond-obsessed billionaires
Falling Dominoes
The latest Cold War–era monument to be destroyed in Berlin: Generalshotel, a V.I.P. lounge that Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev passed through on trips to East Germany
Trouble in Berlin
The ultra-liberal Berlin Film Festival faces criticism as its founder is revealed to have been a member of the Nazi Party
A Different Draft of History
Oktoberfest 1900 gives the Bavarian beer festival an injection of Scorsese menace and mayhem