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19 hours ago · It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. The game’s name is a reference to “six degrees of separation”, a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.
2 days ago · From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Directed by Trip Cullman (Significant Other, Yen), the revival of John Guare's critically acclaimed play Six Degrees of Separat...
2 days ago · If you know Sebald, you will know that this is no ordinary novel, but very broadly its central, titular character is a man who, traumatised by being a kindertransport refugee from Czechoslovakia in 1939, tries to recover his memory and his life some 50 years later.
1 day ago · The final link is to another brilliant opening paragraph in an English novel, this time Muriel Spark’s Girls of Slender Means. And I’m pleased that I managed to link to two women authors as well this time, and it didn’t turn out to be an exclusively male list. This month I’ve travelled from Berlin to Japan, to (possibly) Prague, to ...
2 days ago · Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning ‘the right or critical moment’. . . . It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for ‘time’; the other being chronos (χρόνος). Whereas the latter refers to chronological or sequential time, kairos signifies a good or proper time for action.
2 days ago · Six Degrees of Separation --- Starting with KAIROS. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. I hadn't even heard of this book until it showed up on the 6-Degrees list this week. I had to do a little research about it. I learned it was written in German and is set in Berlin before the Berlin Wall came down. I was curious about the title: Kairos.
2 days ago · That title brings to mind Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest whose main protagonist is convinced a tiger is stalking around her Australian beachside house at night. This month’s Six Degrees has taken me from a novel about five women, ex-citizens of the old GDR, to an elderly woman facing a danger but not quite the one she thinks.
