With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders.
By Laura Miller Jun 27, 2008
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400 years before credit default swaps strode the earth, Shakespeare nailed the financial crisis.
By Andrew Leonard
March 25, 2009
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Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" offers a spectacular mashup of Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Tarantino and the Bard -- and it's weirder than that sounds.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 28, 2008
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The Welsh poet reads from the works of Shakespeare and from Milton's "Paradise Lost."
September 3, 2002
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Victor Hugo raised him in a séance, Voltaire ripped him off and Byron called him a vulgar dog. The world's great writers just can't leave Shakespeare alone.
By Jonathon Keats
August 7, 2002
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A new adaptation takes Shakespeare to high school. The "O" stands for Othello." Also, "Oprah."
By Charles Taylor
August 31, 2001
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The man who fingered Joe Klein goes on the trail of JonBenet's killer, the Unabomber, Monica Lewinsky and Shakespeare.
By Gavin McNett
November 2, 2000
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Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" remains a bloody and spectacular depiction of doomsday karma -- and the trickle-down theory of anarchy.
By Michael Sragow
September 21, 2000
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Readers write about academia and its disintegration, lesbians without personalities, Peter Pan syndrome among gay men and simpering nymphets of the Flockhart-Paltrow school.
By Camille Paglia
June 9, 2000
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Shall I compare thy thong to a ...
By James Diers
May 17, 2000
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"Pez Dispens'd" and other couplets in praise of tech gadgets.
By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
March 11, 2000
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To hell with European philosophers: The breakthroughs of non-European thinkers are the 1960s' greatest legacy.
By Camille Paglia
March 4, 2000
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Shall I compare thee to a transistor? Shakespearean odes to technology.
By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
February 26, 2000
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A chat with the shrink to TV's recently married moneybags; gay guys want to bed Madonna, Everett says; Renie Zellweger tattoos her caboose with whose name? Plus: Aaron Spelling is mad as hell!
By Amy Reiter
February 18, 2000
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The author of "Wonders of the Invisible World" picks five great literary walk-ons.
By David Gates
February 14, 2000
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In his 19th novel, Updike spins a tale of feverish and furtive sex and death in a masterly prequel to "Hamlet."
By John Freeman
February 9, 2000
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Will we get stuck with a fumbling Bush? Given the evil eye by Hillary? Deafened by the shrill mania of gun controllers? And will Kate Winslet ever get the Oscar Helen Hunt stole from her?
By Camille Paglia
February 2, 2000
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Like so many self-conscious directors, Julie Taymor wrecks Shakespeare's already disastrous play with her own horrific vision.
By Charles Taylor
January 7, 2000
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Will the free market reward art and education? Plus: Gauging "the Philadelphia effect"; Americans are fat because we're lazy and eat bad food.
Letters to the Editor
November 17, 1999
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Prince Hal (played by Pat Buchanan) experiences technical difficulties.
By Sean Elder
October 25, 1999
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Raging tempests: Natural, cultural, political and cinematic.
By Camille Paglia
September 22, 1999
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C'mon over, baby, whole lotta Shakespeare going on! Plus: The case of the exceedingly unpleasant cream puff; and Stone and DeGeneres slated to sing, "She's havin' my baby ..."
By Amy Reiter
June 10, 1999
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CBS's "Joan of Arc" miniseries is a history lesson in end-of-the-millennium American pop culture.
By Christopher Hawthorne
May 14, 1999
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Too many weak performances -- and no, not including Calista's -- prevent Michael Hoffman's opulent "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from being more than a mildly pleasurable exercise in ornamentation.
By Stephanie Zacharek
May 14, 1999
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The Bard gets the teen-flick treatment in '10 Things I Hate About You'.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
April 1, 1999
To breed or not to breed
The Merchants of Wall Street
The ultimate Japanese Shakespeare spaghetti western!
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 8
"After Shakespeare" by John Gross, ed.
"O"
Lear meets the energy vampire
Glenn Greenwald
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