A micro-library grows in Brooklyn.

By parsing the wacky surface trappings of the historical East, a visitor can get a sense of the deeper cultural currents behind ostalgie, and why Berliners feel the way that they do.

Does China’s rise mean the end of one of America’s most storied ethnic enclaves?

In director Katerina Cizek’s innovative new documentary, One Millionth Tower, she focuses on the specific and ubiquitous reality of the highrise: more than one billion of us live in “vertical homes,” as she calls them, and many of them are falling into disrepair.

How knowing your neighbor’s electric bill can help you to cut yours.