Stephen Greenblatt

‘Competitive Consumption’

An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displays the extravagant Tudor taste for jewels, artworks, tapestries, and other finery.

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 10, 2022–January 8, 2023; the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 26–May 14, 2023; and the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 24–September 24, 2023

December 22, 2022 issue

Pestilence & the Bard

April 8, 2021 issue

A Wisewoman in Stratford

Hamnet imagines a literary legacy for Shakespeare’s wife and son.

Hamnet

by Maggie O’Farrell

January 14, 2021 issue

Letter

Eugene Stelzig

Pestilence & the Bard

April 8, 2021 issue

The festival of the Misteri d’Elx in the Basilica de Santa María, Elche, Spain, 2015

Witness to a Mystery

June 11, 2020 issue

Not To Worry

January 17, 2019 issue

Herri met de Bles: Hell, mid-sixteenth century

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

Letter

Michael Hoffman

Not To Worry

January 17, 2019 issue

A fresco by Giorgio Vasari in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio that may contain a clue to the location of a lost work by Leonardo da Vinci, 1563

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

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

‘King Lear Allotting His Kingdom to His Three Daughters’; photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872. From left are Lorina Liddell, Edith Liddell, Charles Hay Cameron, and Alice Liddell.

Can We Ever Master King Lear?

The One King Lear

by Sir Brian Vickers

February 23, 2017 issue

‘The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo’; xpainting by Henry Fuseli, circa 1800–1810

When Shakespeare Died

June 23, 2016 issue

How Shakespeare Lives Now

His plays have left his world, passed into ours, and become part of us

April 21, 2016 issue

The Jewish Poet of Love

The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

edited by Robert Alter

January 14, 2016 issue

‘Shakespeare in Tehran’

April 23, 2015 issue

Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan, the last stop on Stephen Greenblatt’s trip to Iran

Shakespeare in Tehran

On the fulfillment of an old dream

April 2, 2015 issue

Letter

Dr. Ismail Salami

‘Shakespeare in Tehran’

April 23, 2015 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

Diego Velázquez: The Rokeby Venus, circa 1648–1651

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

A Man of Principle

Coriolanus

a film directed by Ralph Fiennes

March 8, 2012 issue