Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck illustration She is currently a professor

She is currently a professor of global governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science

From city laneways to public parks and suburban shopping strips to abandoned car lots

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Thirty-Eight

a feature on the Philippine Harley Club

Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck illustration She is currently a professorA love affair unfolds in East Berlin during the final years of the GDR, where time itself feels unstable, like a clock slipping its gears. Katharina, a young woman, becomes entangled with Hans, an older, married writer, and what begins as a charged, intellectual romance slowly tightens into something more possessive and unsettling. Their relationship mirrors the state around them, built on control, contradiction, and the quiet pressure of a system