Joseph Pearson is a writer and historian, author of the books The Airlift / Sweet Victory (The History Press, Pegasus Books, 2025), My Grandfather’s Knife (The History Press, HarperCollins, 2022) and Berlin (Reaktion Press, 2017). His work has appeared in The Guardian, Lettre International, New England Review, AGNI, PRISM International, Geist and many other publications. For more than a decade, he was the author of one of Berlin’s favourite blogs, The Needle. Since 2014, he has been the essayist of the Schaubühne Theatre. He lectures in Berlin at a German university, the Barenboim-Said Akademie, and at New York University in Berlin.