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Following a chance conversation with a stranger in a London television studio in 2023, Radden Keefe picks up the unsolved ...
What Country, Friends, Is This? - If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation by Daniel Hahn ...
Some while back, the literary biography industry slowed as it began to run out of subjects to write about. It found a new ...
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Ugwu is a teenager from a village in Nigeria who goes to work as a houseboy for a university lecturer, Odenigbo. His aunt tells him that if he works hard, he will eat well. ‘You will even eat meat ...
On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...
In Harold Bloom’s native United States, his latest tome has proved something of a publishing phenomenon. When I visited New York last autumn, this academic panorama of Shakespeare was enjoying a ...
What is the best way to begin a book? Anna Burns, in her third novel, has gone for the now-read-on approach: ‘The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to ...