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Shortly after “Austerlitz” was published, Sebald died in a car crash, aged 57. At the time, he was tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his literary achievements, including the meditative travelogue “The Rings of Saturn,” and “The Emigrants,” which tells the story of four individuals who—like Austerlitz—managed to escape the Holocaust but were forever haunted by the fate of those...
Imagine for a moment that on the lonely Friday night depicted in the Strokes’ 2003 single “12:51,” frontman Julian Casablancas decided to hit up a dance club rather than crash the drunken house party mentioned in the lyrics. The result would sound something like “11th Dimension,” the first single from Casablancas’ premiere solo album “Phrazes For the Young.” Featuring a bubbling electronic beat layered with disco sheen and synths torn from the Human League?...
...swine flu program has been shrouded in controversy from its inception. Last March, President Ford recommended a crash program to vaccinate “each and every American” against swine flu, after one soldier died in an isolated outbreak of the disease at Fort...
...started Shoptimism before the recession. How did the economic crash change the book? A lot of people who might have been romantic buyers in 2007 steadily became more and more classic. They had to be much more mindful about how to spend their money. Suddenly cool didn't mean trendy, it meant something that would last or was a really great bargain...
...Paul's The hilltop ruins of this church turned mausoleum turned armory, tel: (60-6) 282 0685, are like a crash course in Malaccan history. Originally a Portuguese chapel, it was taken over by the Dutch in the 17th century and used as a place of burial. When the British arrived in 1825, they added a lighthouse and converted the original building into a munitions and gunpowder store. Wander through the arresting stone structure, which is open to the sky, then sit on the cool floor and gaze out at the Strait. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful...