James Woodall

is based in Berlin. His books include biographies of Jorge Luis Borges, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He also writes on the arts for The Economist.

Did Bowie bring down the Berlin Wall?

The British rock star spent three years in the city and may have helped stir opposition to the wall

First Posted December 15, 2008

James Woodall on a new movie accused of lending ‘terrorist-chic’ to the notorious guerrilla gang

First Posted October 20, 2008

A Berlin exhibition will honour the great street-corner snappers of the past, reports James Woodall

First Posted June 16, 2008

James Woodall on the row over claims that Coleridge translated Goethe's Faust

First Posted April 14, 2008

Berliners will decide soon what the fate of Tempelhof, Hitler’s ‘gateway to the Third Reich’ is to be

First Posted March 31, 2008