What from the Ithakas I learned

A post about coming home. Musa Okwonga&rsquo;s astonishing memoir of the city, In the End, It Was All About Love , describes how Berlin calls her inhabitants home, compelled as if by the gentle contours of some mysterious gradient. I was caught in the well of its gravity years ago, when I first boarded a flight to come here for a conference knowing next to nothing about the city. It makes no sense…