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Alexander Wells

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Alexander Wells

Germany Australia

Alexander Wells is an Australian writer who lives in Berlin. His essays have been published by New Left Review (Sidecar), The Baffler, and the European Review of Books among others.

Articles by Alexander Wells

Black and white image of Berlin's Potzdamer Platz in the 1930s.
Sludge G, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Toward a Vision of Post-COVID Urban Space: Joseph Roth’s City of Miniatures
By Alexander Wells
Reading Roth’s Berlin miniatures, a sense of the dynamic between sociability and justice feels essential to the urban experience.