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Travel is increasingly a competition of access: who know what the locals know? Who knows the secrets of where to eat and visit? It can be exhausting as it is…
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Book Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
By Katy Kelleher A novel set in Nazi Germany and narrated by the grim reaper doesn’t sound particularly whimsical, but Markus Zusak makes the task seem natural, if not easy,…
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Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game: The Fountain of Inspiration
by Steven Hermans I wake up. Around me birds announce the sunrise. Through the plastic of my little tent I see the outline of the new day painted in thin…
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Ilmenau: Walking in the footsteps of Goethe
by Zac Steger The small university town of Ilmenau sits at the edge of the Thuringian Forest in central Germany, taking its name from the River Ilm that flows through…
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Beethoven in Vienna
Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms (among others) are symbolized in Vienna not only with monuments but also with museums (two, in Schubert’s case: his birthplace, and the house in which he died), but it is Beethoven who is represented most. With several museums devoted to him, some of which contain his own personal effects, there exist in and around Vienna more sites associated with Beethoven than with any other composer who graced the city.
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