Now in Paperback!

Elizabeth Winkler's SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN AND OTHER HERESIES will forever change how you think of Shakespeare.

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'[she had a] tactile understanding of the ancient practice of creating poems as art—running her hands like a dressmaker along the back of their stitching, watching the way they draped and moved and caught the light.' Nathan Heller🙏
newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

Now in Paperback!

Elizabeth Winkler's SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN AND OTHER HERESIES will forever change how you think of Shakespeare.

Learn more: spr.ly/6014wec9M

This is a remarkable portrait of a type of mind and experience that it's almost impossible to imagine developing and unfolding in the 21st century. theparisreview.org/interviews/132…

'About 250 years after its break from the Catholic Church, England had its own Bethlehem and manger. The problem: No one really knows where Shakespeare was born.' - Elizabeth Winkler nytimes.com/2024/04/23/tra…

460 Years Ago, Shakespeare Was Born Here. Or Somewhere.

I wrote about bardolatry, Stratford, fake relics, and Shakespeare's shrine for The New York Times

Read for Henry James's delicious takedown towards the end (so mean, so subtle, so James)

nytimes.com/2024/04/23/tra…

Now in Paperback!

Elizabeth Winkler's SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN AND OTHER HERESIES will forever change how you think of Shakespeare.

Learn more: spr.ly/6014wecr8

Since the covid­-19 pandemic, the popularity of the crossword and other word games has only increased. A new book looks at the crossword’s history, and helps explain what makes a word puzzle-worthy econ.st/49ZCSZH 👇

'Roughly 13 percent of American jobs are writing-intensive, and they earn more than $675 billion a year. Many of these jobs are likely to evaporate'
Samanth Subramanian tangles with AI and its threat not only just to writing but to thinking:
newrepublic.com/article/180395…

An important quote here from Graham Holderness in Guardian Books

amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”
George Gordon, Lord Byron, who died #OTD 200 years ago.

Coming Wednesday, April 24 at 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT - 'Bards & Heretics: Shakespeare and the Psychology of Secular Belief' with Elizabeth Winkler and a. natasha joukovsky!

Harvey’s description of Oxford is so amusing — a “passing singular odd man” who writes “womanish” works, loves clothes & is obsessed with Italy

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Popped down to D.C. to see Macbeth newyorker.com/culture/the-th…

What is a 14-letter word for a constructor of crossword puzzles?

I reviewed THE RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX, Anna Shechtman 's fascinating history of the crossword and the women who helped create it The Economist

economist.com/culture/2024/0…

This event is sold-out!! See you in London 🇬🇧

Brilliant as usual from Ros Barber 😂