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J A Hopkin
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Writer, roamer, Europa
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On #Radiohead in #Berlin 9/11 and last week #UberArenaBerlin @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-hopkin...
Why Radiohead’s rage will never age
Back in Berlin 24 years after their 9/11 gig, the band’s blistering paranoia is still in very much in evidence
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December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Ich saß bei der Q&A nach der Aufführung von #Androgynous #gorkitheater #berlin hinter dir. Dezember 7. Du bist mir dann mit deinem Klappstuhl gefolgt! Lass uns treffen! #gorki
December 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The Temptation to Resist...a few words on #LászlóKrasznahorkai register an email to read for free www.thenewworld.co.uk/j-a-hopkin-l.... @thenewworldmag.bsky.social #emcioran
László Krasznahorkai, the master of melancholy
In his spellbinding novels, Hungary’s new Nobel laureate turns despair into resistance
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October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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www.theguardian.com/books/2002/a... RIP #IvanKlima I spoke to him for @guardianbooks.bsky.social during the #Prague floods of 2002
On a survivor's responsibility
Ivan Klima on the survivor's responsibility and the place of Prague in his writings
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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www.thetimes.com/comment/regi... on #Georgian literature available in English in #theTimes back in 2008 #Sakartvelo
James Hopkin takes a journey through Georgia's literary heritage
The first thing to ask is: why has so little Georgian literature been translated into English? It is one of the world’s oldest languages, dating from around 430, with a rich diversity of medieval
www.thetimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Europe's literary giant, #Poland in #theNewWorld #ThePenguinBookofPolishShortStories #shortstories #antonialloydjones www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-hopkin... register email to read for free
Is Poland Europe’s literary giant?
A new book of Polish short stories reveals the inventive mischievousness of the nation’s writers
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September 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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124th birth anniversary of #ÖdönvonHorváth, playwright and novelist. My @theTLS piece on von Horváth's portrayal of 1930s fascism,violence towards women,corruption, media propaganda, stupidity. Sounds familiar?
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#schaubuhne
#ÖdönvonHorváthGesellschaft
Leaps and contradictions | TLS
J. A. Hopkin on a twentieth-century playwright – Ödön von Horváth – whose work speaks to us today with 'startling relevance'
the-tls.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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149 minutes of photographs / slides(with soundtrack) in 6 installations #NanGoldin's #ThisWillNotEndWell' #neuenationalgalerie, #Berlin Emotional tales of addiction,AIDs,early trans scene,and the suicide of her brave and gifted sister.A brilliant and bruising exhib by this courageous artist-activist
November 22, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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The arts scene in #Berlin is facing an 11.6% cut in state funding from Jan1. Is the city losing its voice? www.theneweuropean.co.uk/is-berlin-lo... @theneweuropean.bsky.social
Is Berlin losing its voice?
In September, the senate suddenly announced 10% cuts to the city’s arts budget
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM