Here is a very curious thing that the internet dug up! A masterful Twitter sleuth PEACHYBLACKG0RL unearthed the fact that Very Good Actress Anne Hathaway is married to a man named Adam Shulman who looks an awful lot like William Shakespeare, who was married to a woman named, wait for it, ANNE HATHAWAY. Whaaaaat?!!? Here’s… Continue reading Anne Hathaway’s weird connection to Shakespeare is freaking the internet out
In one of the most ambitious debuts of the year, Preti Taneja, 40, ships the madness of Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear to modern-day India. We That Are Young (Penguin Random House; on stands now) is set against the 2011 anti-corruption protests in the country, and absorbs its present complications of power and patriarchy. The Warwick… Continue reading Preti Taneja’s new book is a modern take on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy King Lear
He may not have won the adulation of book critics or grammarians, who catalogue the stylistic infelicities that crowd every page of his novels, who decry his “curiously ill-chosen clichés” and “mangled idioms”, but every new book Dan Brown sends out attracts the phrases “page-turner” and “bestseller” like a magnet. The shelf-busting force of his… Continue reading Dan Brown’s guide to writing a bestseller
