Shakespearean by Robert McCrum
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An author considers why the words of William Shakespeare continue to hold such relevance even in today’s difficult times—for us and for himself.
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The Spy of Venice by Benet Brandreth
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A debut novel starring Shakespeare as swashbuckling hero.
Read MoreThe Weight of an Infinite Sky by Carrie La Seur
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A soft-spoken and convincingly wise novel set in the rural vastness of Montana, ambitiously patterned on Hamlet.
Read MoreAll Our Revels Ended
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After a long career spent in the throes of literary battle, Harold Bloom wants to tell us that he is done fighting.
He began his combat in the mid-fifties by defending the English Romantics against the New Critics who, inspired by T.S. Eliot, maligned Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth and others to such an extent that study of them was virtually banned in American universities until Bloom took up the call.
Read MoreQuarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War by Adam Nicolson
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Adam Nicolson’s new book Quarrel with the King is a searching, thoughtful brief study of the earls of Pembroke (and their often formidable wives and sisters) through two hundred years, but there is another family drama, somewhat less ancient but no less fascinating, unfolding just beneath its surface.
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