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Stephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. He is the author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, among other books. (January 2021)
A Wisewoman in Stratford
Hamnet imagines a literary legacy for Shakespeare’s wife and son.
Hamnet
by Maggie O’Farrell
January 14, 2021 issue
Damn It All
‘The Penguin Book of Hell,’ edited by Scott G. Bruce
The Penguin Book of Hell
edited by Scott G. Bruce
December 20, 2018 issue
A Man in Constant Motion
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
by Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney
May 10, 2018 issue
The King of the Bitter Laugh
David Grossman’s ‘A Horse Walks into a Bar’
A Horse Walks into a Bar
by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
April 20, 2017 issue
The Naughty Pleasures of Boccaccio
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Wayne A. Rebhorn
January 8, 2015 issue
Wondrous, Fragile, Tedious Berkeley
At Berkeley
a film directed by Frederick Wiseman
February 6, 2014 issue
On the Edge of Slander
Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
Much Ado About Nothing
a film directed by Joss Whedon
September 26, 2013 issue
Glories of Classicism
The Classical Tradition is a low-cost Wunderkammer, a vast cabinet of curiosities.
The Classical Tradition
edited by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis
February 21, 2013 issue
The Lonely Gods
Die Walküre
an opera by Richard Wagner, directed by Robert Lepage, and conducted by James Levine
June 23, 2011 issue
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