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Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right

When AI Speaks for the Dead

A murder victim recently addressed a defendant with the help of AI. What are the limits of our new reality?
Patricia J. Williams

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
Books

Renaissance Women

A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson

"The only axiom, the only starting point—and this is important—is the physical body, the physicality of existence."

David Szalay in conversation with Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company

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Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez


Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch

The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis

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Memoir

Emily Hoffman

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Emily Hoffman