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/To be immortalized by Shakespeare is often also to be caricatured by him; a sumptuous new biography of King Henry IV admirably brings its royal subject out of the Bard's shadow.
Read MoreBook Review: Juliet's Nurse
/The Nurse in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" takes center stage in a new historical novel by Lois Leveen
Read MoreTitle Menu: 10 Great "Minor" Works by Major Writers
/The great writers of the ages were hardly (often) one-hit wonders. In praise of diversity, the staff at OLM celebrate the lesser-known b-sides of some pretty well known pens.
Read MoreTitle Menu: Twoo Wuv
/February would be unremittingly bleak if it weren't for the excuse it gives us to ponder the meaning of love, that many-splendored thing. Our editors offer up their favorite literary treatments.
Read MoreEntitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess
/Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?
Read MoreBook Review: Shakespeare's Common Prayers
/The words of Shakespeare have become a common literary language - but whose words did HE know? Why, the words of Thomas Cranmer, of course.
Read MoreAll the World to Nothing
/The real mystery of Richard III is not the fate of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, but why we never tire of telling and re-telling his story. What do we really see when we stare at his enigmatic portrait?
Read More'I am Thy Man'
/He fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
Read MoreBook Review: Iago
/One of Shakespeare's greatest villains gets a novel of his own - is there creative life after the Bard?
Read MoreNow in Paperback: the RSC/Modern Library Shakespeare
/A new series of eye-opening Shakespeare paperbacks, suitable for bus, train, and trolley.
Read MoreA Prison Spotlight
/Former political radical Susan Rosenberg received the longest sentence ever given for the charge of possessing explosives. Her new memoir revisits her prison experience.
Read MoreBook Review: Revenger
/The latest in the ongoing adventures of Shakespeare - JOHN Shakespeare, master-spy to Queen Elizabeth I.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
/The seventh in Craig Johnson’s award-winning Sheriff Walt Longmire series, Hell Is Empty proves that when it comes to putting a contemporary spin on the lore of the old West, few writers do it better.
Read MoreThe Obscure Object of Financial Fiction
/How to write a great novel of the financial crisis? One contender has published his attempt, and it features an updated version of that bugbear figure from Shakespeare and Trollope: the Jewish banker.
Read MoreLiterature is Dead, Long Live Literature
/Is the death of literature finally dead? If not, it's been dealt a healthy blow by Gregory Jusdanis' Fiction Agonistes, even it art does have to “justify itself in a way not necessary before.”
Read MoreThe Platypus
/For more than fifty years and more than fifty novels, Louis Auchincloss chronicled the lives of New York's upper class. His last book is a memoir of his life among that upper class -- but is truth stranger than fiction?
Read MoreThe Curious Disposition
/Some of the greatest works of English literature grapple with the dark, knotted roots of anti-Semitism, and the audience is always complicit. A new book studies the tangle of art and atrocity in writers Chaucer to Marlowe to Shakespeare
Read MoreReview of Shakespeare and Elizabeth
/Garrett Handley reviews Helen Hackett's "Shakespeare and Elizabeth": "Luckily, in the hybridity which governs this book, the fun always wins out."
Read MoreIs There a Doctor in the House?
/Neuroscience? In Elsinore? Lianne Habinek has Hamlet on the brain and goes at the question in book and volume. You may never think about Hamlet, or think about thinking, in the same way again.
Read MoreThe Bard of Everybody
/In a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s restoration of the famous First Folio, Garrett Handley investigates the maddening vagaries that have always confronted the Bard’s editors.
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