Berlin! Berlin! Dispatches From The Weimar Republic. Berlin Stories from
In Weimar Germany, Tucholsky was big, the most brilliant, prolific and witty cultural journalist of his time. (... ) "Berlin! Berlin!" includes one of his best-known Panter essays, the nonsensical "Where Do the Holes in Swiss Cheese Come From?" When roused, he cranked up the gleeful malice that was H. L. Mencken's trademark. (...) He had an unmatched sense of humor, with very funny puns and images (...) The pith and the punch of his cabaret work translated brilliantly to his anti-Nazi satires. Too brilliantly, in the end.