Funny Books for Young Readers: Jeff Kinney, the author of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series, shares a handful of titles that ...

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of ...

On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

In “The Riverside Shakespeare,” a magisterial compendium that has illumined lives and overloaded bookshelves for decades, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” appears in small print that runs for 27 pages. In a ...

A 400-year-old spirit has been making its presence known. This voice from a long-gone past isn’t a Halloween haunt, though. It’s just never gone away. So is this an especially fruitful time for ...

It almost got away from me. I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book, “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” (St. Martin’s Press, 400 pgs., $32 hardback) next month in this column, but then I ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By James Shapiro THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By Lena Cowen Orlin Much of the evidence ...

Many students are finishing up their required reading for the semester, and the summer beach reading season is less than two months away, but there is never really a bad time to open a good book. In ...