Recognized as one of the best all-male choirs of the US and having a 100-year-long history, the Notre Dame Glee Club is soon to arrive at Budapest on their one-month European tour to sing for us (free!) at 7pm, after the 6 o’clock mass on Tuesday, 26th May in Matthias Church, heart of the Buda Castle. Following the concerts…
In this post I briefly present the first topic of my research in Moldova: newspaper strips, more precisely how elements of the comics’ medium (panels, speech bubbles, inscriptions) are used by editors to boost the quality of articles or even the quality of newspapers. Reading the basic work on comics The Penguin Book of Comics:…
It is not true. Coalhouse is not Kohlhaas. And never will be, as Doctorow is not Heinrich von Kleist. Still, the most complex character of Ragtime, by his name, deeds and fate resembles Kleist’s hero, Michael Kohlhaas. This is why I am going to explore the equivocal relation between them. Coalhouse is a name no…
It took three months before The Sunday Times and The Guardian shed light on the fact that the quietly published The Cuckoo’s Calling, debut piece by a mysterious author named Robert Galbraith, is – in fact – the first detective fiction novel of the universally acclaimed novelist, J K Rowling. As The Evening Standard reported…