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 »
The end of 1913: Rilke wants peace, the Mona Lisa crosses the French border, and Kafka writes a very long (and somewhat creepy) love letter