Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her.

You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

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Jeffrey R. Wilson is a Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University and editor-in-chief of Public Humanities. He is the author of Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and ...

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In Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated film, Fernanda Torres plays a woman whose family is torn apart by Brazil’s military ...

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