3 streets

Yoko Tawada - winner of the National Book Award - presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin

Ghosts don't come back to this world unless there's a special for them here. Marx's spirit haunts Karl-Marx-Strassem and Kant's appears in Kantstrasse. There are so many streets named after Goethe that his ghost gets awfully confused and rarely manages to haunt any of them. But Mayakovsky would undoubtedly come straight here. There was apparently once a square named after him in Russia, but eve spirits are avoiding Russia now.