This week in 1913: Kaiser Wilhelm hates dancing, Kafka weeps, Joyce talks Hamlet, and Musil writes about love
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
This week in 1913: Swann’s Way is published, Georg Trakl gives a bad reading of a fantastic work
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
This week in 1913: Camus is born, Hitler paints a picture, and Kafka takes two trains
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
This week in 1913: Rilke wants a divorce, King Otto is declared insane, and “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is coined
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
This week in 1913: Kaiser Wilhelm shoots 1,100 pheasants and a magnificent display of French art
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory,… Read more »
This week in 1913: the “German Woodstock,” Walter Benjamin’s first public appearance, and Futurism becomes “the movement of the hour”
From now until the end of the year, we’ll be publishing weekly excerpts from 1913, which The Observer called “An absolute gem of a book.” 1913 was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt… Read more »
An interview with Lore Segal, author of Half the Kingdom
In Half the Kingdom, the renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal creates a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving portrait of life today—where terrorist paranoia and end-of-the-world hysteria mask… Read more »
Thursday Shepherd’s Beaked Whales
Larry Kirshbaum, chief of publishing at Amazon Publishing and “one of the most influential figures in the publishing world,” has been accused of sexually assaulting his former mistress in 2010. (New York… Read more »
Wednesday Narwhals
Though somewhat late to the game, Amazon has turned its sights on the app market and “is strengthening its presence on mobile apps by paying developers to carry advertisements for its products… Read more »
Thursday Fin Whales
The British human rights group Reprieve is accusing U.S. authorities of preventing a copy of Alexander Solzhenistsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago from being delivered to Shaker Aamer, an inmate at Guantanamo Bay. (Reprieve)… Read more »