Shteyngart on ‘New Berlin’: It’s ‘Easily Europe’s Coolest Metropolis’

Yet “it’s still okay to be excited by things” there, writes Absurdistan author Gary Shteyngart in a fine story in the latest Travel + Leisure.

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