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Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
February 7, 2024Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
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Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
February 3, 2024Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
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Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
January 29, 2024I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
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A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
December 23, 2023"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
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Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
December 4, 2023It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
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O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
November 29, 2023An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
November 21, 2023The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
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Coffee with… Series
November 20, 2023Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
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My Father’s World
November 19, 2023In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
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Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
November 18, 2023Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...