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British designer Frank Andrew and his Swiss-born wife Ariane bought the farm and hamlet as a ruin in 2003. It lies in the verdant depths of Le Marche, a mostly rural region along the Adriatic that, with its mix of Renaissance treasures, rolling hills and architectural rusticity, is a savvy alternative to the more popular Tuscany. Borgo Tranquillo's owners have remade its buildings in an arrestingly Modernist style while still using the original, reconditioned stones and roof tiles. For rent are four apartments (from $940 a week) and a villa, each with a soaring interior accentuated by weathered...
...book a year for much of his life - not just novels but short stories, book reviews, memoir and art criticism. His relentless curiosity sometimes led him to attempt experiments that were beyond his range: science fiction in Toward the End of Time, for example, and a retelling of the Hamlet story in Gertrude and Claudius. But at his very best, as in the Rabbit novels - two of which won Pulitzer Prizes - or his 1968 shocker, Couples, in which he dove fearlessly into the sexual revolution, he looked deeply and clearly into the swamps of human experience and reported back...
...both, whether it be for the first time or for the fifth. Garber demonstrates how Stoppard’s play is an inversion of Shakespeare’s while similarly dealing with existential crises: “Stoppard’s play both interprets and upends ‘Hamlet.’ It is ‘Hamlet’ inside out, so to speak, seen from the green room or the wrong end of a telescope.”Garber’s breadth of knowledge of the themes and characters in these plays can even make...
...chilly morning outside the hamlet of Reykjahlid in northern Iceland, Hallgrimur Jonasson lifts the edge of a soggy plank of wood lying in the clay to expose a small hole in the ground. "This is the rye-bread bakery," he says, yanking his hand back from a waft of scalding, sulfurous steam. A chef in a nearby hotel, Jonasson estimates his kitchen staff bake roughly three tons of the sweet, dense rye bread in the hole every summer to meet the growing demand, mostly from tourists, for the exotic carb. The bread's price tag - up nearly 20% from last...
Zhang, 36, has little time for such expressions of grief. As a Communist Party cadre from Beichuan, he was working in a village nearby when the tremors hit. The hamlet's 2,000 survivors were cut off from the outside world. Finally Zhang learned that his hometown had been flattened. "Everybody cried, but I couldn't cry," he says. "What would people think?" The next day Zhang trekked six hours to get help. It would be more than a month until he was able to visit the remains of his home. His wife's and daughter's bodies were never...