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DIED. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, acerbic, leftist Indonesian novelist and dissident; in Jakarta. Detained in 1965 by the anticommunist Suharto regime, he wrote his most famous work, the Buru Quartet, while imprisoned. The series of books chronicled Indonesia's battle for independence from Dutch colonialists, who in the writer's...
With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel (newmajestichotel.com) makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional...
The exhibition will be at Beijing's Long March Space gallery from May 20-31, before traveling to Paris and other cities in the fall. Aside from some of i-D's most famous fashion spreads, it features fragrances specially created to conjure up different periods of the past, as...
In his new book Send in the Idiots, British journalist Kamran Nazeer, who is also autistic, describes the need for repetitive motions or words as a search for "local coherence" in a world full of jarring randomness. He also conveys the social difficulties: "Striking up conversations with strangers," he writes...
Vibrant as the scene is in backwaters like Kaluga, the signs of new prosperity in Russia's cities are even more striking. Yekaterinburg, a city of 1.3 million in the Urals region, 900 miles east of Moscow, is best known as the place where the Bolshevik revolutionaries shot the last...