This week in 1913: Rilke wants a divorce, Kaiser Wilhelm shoots 1,100 pheasants, and a magnificent display of French art is dismissed by critics
Alex Shephard
1913 is now available in paperback. 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… Read more »
This month in 1913: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice becomes The Magic Mountain, D.H. Lawrence’s blood is true, and the future is open 
This week in 1913: Kaiser Wilhelm shoots 1,100 pheasants and a magnificent display of French art