Non-Fiction: In Bad Times Humor, Consolation, a Lipstick Help

Our author learns something new about Walter Benjamin's address book, 1945, Voltaire's garden and the laws of the Glamours In times like the present, the supposedly long-forgotten time "of exile is gaining in importance again, as Wolfgang Benz has proven in his book Exile. Walter Benjamin has become impressively iconic for the intellectual life in exile, not least due to his suicide in the Pyrenees, in the desperate attempt to escape the Nazis.T…