Neglected and Loved Treasures of Ancient and Modern Literature
The eternal virtues of literature are sincerity, clarity, breadth, force, and subtlety.— Sir Walter Raleigh (the literary critic, not the Elizabethan courtier), in Romance
A reporter of German left-wing newspaper taz visits GDR-built apartment building blocks with a man who's trained as a visitor for elderly people who feel alone.
It's not a particularly dramatic subject on the face of it -- more a picture of everyday survival. But it is important and full of poignant insights. For example, that people suffer more from being abandoned by family who are still alive, than from losing all of their family due to death.
