Anton Cebalo

on the atlas — 12

• There Once Was an Empire - by Anton Cebalo - novum2 savers
• First Contact with America - by Anton Cebalo - novum1 savers
• 6 Artists Who Depicted Traumatic & Brutal Experiences of World War I1 savers
• Media Use and Evaluation | Gallup Historical Trends1 savers
• Stray Satellite1 savers
• Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte1 savers
• Twenty Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte - 50 Watts1 savers
• The Paris Review - Thomas Bernhard, Karl Kraus, and Other Vienna-Hating Viennese - The Paris Review1 savers
• Germany. University life seen through American eyes. Tupper, 1900-1901 - Economics in the Rear-View Mirror1 savers
• The Man Who Made the News Novelesque1 savers
• US homicide clearance rate plunges to all-time low1 savers
• The Radetzky March: elegy for an empire – That's How The Light Gets In1 savers

highlights — 4

• University Life in Germany

  Germany. University life seen through American eyes. Tupper, 1900-1901 - Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

• Fénéon began writing an anonymous column comprising brief, noir-ish news items, each no more than three lines long, drawn from the newswires, local reports and reader correspondence. Faits divers – also known as chiens écrasés, or flattened dogs – were a popular feature in French newspapers: Proust read them daily over breakfast, while Gustave Flaubert allegedly found the seed for Madame Bovary (1856) in an item from a provincial journal. But it was Fénéon who turned the faits divers into an art form, using them as a space for avant-garde experiment, based on the narrative power of a well-cons…

  The Man Who Made the News Novelesque

• Murderers in America have a 50% chance of getting away with it, according to alarming new data showing homicide clearance rates at an all-time low. Analyses of FBI data show that 71% of homicides were deemed solved in 1980 — dropping to only about 50% in 2020, the last time the data were compiled. “We’re on the verge of being the first developed nation where the majority of homicides go uncleared,” Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, told the Guardian. A graph by the group shows that the clearance rate was even higher before 1980, seemingly marked as high as 90% in 1…

  US homicide clearance rate plunges to all-time low

• This may sound dry and somewhat schematic, but Roth recreates the lost world of the Hapsburg empire in scenes that range between precise ironical observation of society and manners, erotically-charged encounters, and satirical comedy.

  The Radetzky March: elegy for an empire – That's How The Light Gets In