Lucy. Mary. Hawkeye. Norm. Kramer. Homer. To borrow from the "Cheers" theme song, everybody knows the names of these classic situation comedy characters. In "Sitcom," Saul Austerlitz shows how these ...
At Austerlitz, Napoleon’s army seized the high ground and forced the Allies into crisis. A massive cavalry clash followed, ...
The sitcom is an endangered species. Nielsen reported that just one sitcom was among the top ten regularly scheduled programs last year—and even this was unusual. And unlike in the past, when popular ...
The turning point in W.G. Sebald’s latest novel, “Austerlitz,” comes when the title character wanders into the disused Ladies Waiting Room at the Liverpool Street Station in London sometime in the ...
Czech history enthusiasts dressed as soldiers march ahead of a re-enactment of Napoleon's famous battle of Austerlitz, that will take place tomorrow, near the southern Moravian town of Slavkov u Brna, ...
A Jewish scholar crisscrosses Europe as he searches for his forgotten past, with the journey taking him to the edge of his limits. The book is considered one of the most important works of post-WWII ...