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Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel. For his essays and reviews, which have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times and New Left Review, he received the 2023 Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. He lives in Berlin.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 165 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 165 padlock

From the Planetarium

Ryan Ruby

‘For some it is an endpoint, for others a tear in the very fabric of time.’

Ryan Ruby on the fall of the Berlin wall and the Zeiss-Großplanetarium.

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