Culture
Chloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void
How did this book make its way to you? I was driving through New Mexico to the Telluride Film Festival, and that’s when Amblin called me…
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shakespeare
Politics
Judge cites Shakespeare as she rules Trump's attack on liberal law firms is illegal
Quoting Shakespeare's "kill all the lawyers" line, a federal judge ruled that President Trump strayed well beyond the bounds of propriety…
News
The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive…
Culture
Remembering Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean Heyday (and Forgetting His Recent Lear)
So—a few weeks ago, I saw Kenneth Branagh in “King Lear” at the Shed. Maybe you did, too? It’s been a while, but I’ve been hesitating to…