Berlin Review meets Klosterruine Berlin
Never Young – Launch Reader 7
Readings and discussions with Emily Greenhouse, Merve Emre, Enis Maci, Eric Otieno Sumba, Berlin Review Editors & Friends

Fri, 3 July 2026, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Free admission

Four guests, three panels. Enis Maci begins, followed by Eric Otieno Sumba and then Emily Greenhouse in conversation with Merve Emre.

“Neither the image belongs to me, nor the memory it comes from, nor the software that calculates it,” Enis Maci writes in her essay on AI and image manipulation in Reader 7. “The only thing that somehow belongs to me is the prompt.”

The authors and fellow travelers of Berlin Review debate whether—and how—it is still possible to bring something genuinely new into the world today.

Eric Otieno Sumba discusses how Mahmood Mamdani’s portrait of two Ugandan presidents challenges misrepresentations of East Africa. Enis Maci investigates AI and authorship, taking a close look at an authentic, then falsified and propagandistically contested cover of the Italian magazine L’Espresso. And Emily Greenhouse, editor of The New York Review of Books, joins us and the critic Merve Emre to discuss the crisis of writing in the age of infocracy.

Further information here: Berlin Review · Launch Reader 7