For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.
An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.
Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks
family business. It is in decline.
The role of the public intellectual--and the moral onus, assuming that one exists--seems ever to thread the Scylla of celebrity and the Charybdis of marginality.


