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Rare copy of first Marvel comic sells for B80.7m
Life, New York Times, Published on 23/03/2022
» A rare piece of Marvel history, a publisher's annotated copy of the first Marvel comic book, sold at auction last week for US$2.4 million (80.7 million baht).
The beginning of the end, and of a new beginning
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 17/10/2018
» The 23rd Book Expo Thailand begins on Wednesdayy at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, and hundreds of thousands of people will flock there to buy books. But as technology has continued to challenge our concept of "reading" and "reading materials", and as history has proved how so many books could be lost and forgotten through time, the exhibitor invites us to imagine a world wherein books have become extinct.
Nightmaresand daydreams
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 07/09/2018
» Elite chooses the best looks and moments from this season's Elle Fashion Week.
A master storyteller, heir to the greats and entirely sui generis
Life, Parul Sehgal, Published on 20/07/2018
» In a famous Hindu parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time and try to describe it, each touching a different part. "An elephant is like a snake," says one, grasping the trunk. "Nonsense; an elephant is a fan," says another, who holds an ear. "A tree trunk," insists a third, feeling his way around a leg.
Grisham winner
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/06/2018
» To add insult to injury, the Third Reich spent not a single mark of the German taxpayers' money on the ghettos, death camps, gas chambers or crematoria. There was no budget for the Holocaust. The expenses were covered by money stolen from the Jews themselves.
Best of the best
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/02/2018
» Generations have their popular writers, but centuries' literary legends are few. Hugo and Tolstoy qualified, Hemingway and Grisham, Goethe and Dickens. Not to mention Shakespeare and Cervantes.