You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...
In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the preoccupied eponymous heroine flees a house full of company.
January happens to be the birth month of Cleopatra, who arguably tops the list of the most fascinating women in history. She was not the first queen or power figure in Egypt—there were Sobekneferu, ...
She, in turn, wonders whether she should cheat on him with a sexy former lover who has been cast opposite her in an upcoming production of “Antony and Cleopatra.” She also worries about her ...