James Rhodes: “Life’s too short to pretend”
Ahead of his upcoming tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, James Rhodes kindly answered a few questions. No idea how he does it, but the answers hit my inbox in no time 😉 You have
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David Lagercrantz: Fall of Man in Wilmslow
It is a novel. A fiction, not a documentary about the life of Alan Turing. This is important because people tend to take every word for granted, weighing it carefully, comparing it to proved facts
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JG Ballard: High-Rise
It took me a while to figure out what other book JG Ballard’s “High-Rise” reminds me of. In my defence I have to write that it has been ages since I’ve read “Lord of the
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s outstanding Richard III
Yes, I can hear them. Those critics, those self declared grail holders of every single tradition you can think of in cultural topics. They are about to start their writing software after they had difficulties
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Hollow Crown, Shakespeare and Benedict Cumberbatch
No, I’m not a Shakespeare expert. Far from that. Although I can imagine that reading his works might be the same challenge for native English speakers as it is for me reading Goethe or Schiller, getting
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Ian McEwan: The Child in Time
Time. You will need time. Because when you start Ian McEwan’s “The Child in Time” it will hook you from the very beginning and will only release you to your real life after you have
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Jim Ottaviani: Alan Turing in a comic book
Welcome, reader! Or should I write: Welcome user? Either way, it may be possible that you won’t be able to read this at all: Without the help of Alan Turing the invention of modern computers
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Dear Letters Live
The Internet, 17th March 2016 1.15pm ish, CET First an apology: I’m typing this letter to post it on my blog rather than grabbing my pen and a piece of paper. It’s not that
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James Rhodes “Der Klang der Wut” – A story like a fairy tale
The truth one might think is something you can’t suppress. But it looked highly unlikely that the book “Instrumental” (“The sound of rage” is it in German – my note) would never make it onto
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Shakespeare in the World
William Shakespeare is one of the best known author of plays. And even if one hasn’t read or seen any of them at all, some sentences seem to be familiar, written forever in the memory
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