1. Marai has been fighting to end violence against women for decades. The 2018 Golden Globe Awards will be a night focusing on women. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, and powered by the creation of ...

Rush hour is unpleasant the world over but in few places is it as deadly as the morning commute in Kabul. On Monday, a bomb went off in downtown Kabul, killing four passersby. A dozen members of the ...

In 1989, Sandor Marai, forgotten and alone, committed suicide. He was 88. He had buried his adored wife of 63 years and, a year later, their adopted son and only child, Janos, who died of heart ...

1. Sándor Márai, a famous Hungarian novelist of bourgeois manners, survives Nazi domination despite his opposition to Fascism. In 1942, he publishes Embers—most of it a virtuosic monologue relaying ...

SAN DIEGO — By the time Sandor Marai touched the barrel of the gun to the roof of his mouth, he had already plotted how the next few minutes would unfold. It was a warm and clear-skied Tuesday in ...

Shah Marai, the chief photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Kabul, has been killed in a bombing in the Afghan capital. Here we present a small selection of his work documenting his homeland.

When nine journalists were among the at least 25 people killed in a double suicide bombing in Kabul on April 30, I saw the blast through my camera. It was only because of luck that I survived, and ...

SANDOR MARAI WAS born in 1900 in Kašsa, which is now the Slovakian city of Kosice, but which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He traveled extensively as a young man before settling in Budapest, where ...

There is a point early on in Sandor Marai's Portraits of a Marriage — a 1941 novel that is just now back in print — when our narrator, a middle-class woman who has married into the vanishing Hungarian ...

We love a watch with a story. It’s why we’re huge fans of the Omega Speedmaster, and why we can’t get enough of anything by Marloe. It’s also why we’re intrigued by a new watchmaker from Ireland ...

When we consider what makes the best watch on the market, it's entirely likely that everyone will have a slightly different criteria. Some will value innovation. Others look towards value for money.