William Shakespeare

How Shakespeare’s plays—400 years later—have remained the best explorations of our own political and cultural fights

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death on Apr 23, Canadians like Sarah Afful are reciting their favourite lines of Shakespeare

Jeanette Winterson is one of a star cast ready to celebrate Shakespeare through cover stories

A local theatre company will stage the play with Romeo’s faction speaking English and Juliet’s French

Like that of Henry V, Prince Jack’s passing leaves a big hole

The famous bard and his characters duke it out in Kill Shakespeare

Plus, a novel about Shakespeare’s illegitimate daughter, a case for the oil sands, a shocking confession, war biographies, and a head-spinning tour of central Europe

Sarah Palin isn’t Shakespeare; she’s Dogberry. Not that she knows who Dogberry is.

An eye-opening new history explains why the authorship dispute has lasted for 150 years

A Q&A with the orthodox Stratfordian about Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud and other non-believers

Over the summer, I was able to spend some time with three great books: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie and, most recently, Herzog by Saul Bellow. All three, coming highly recommended by friends whose judgment have my utmost respect, shone for me. And this is not to say that I’ve actually finished all (or any) of them. Anyone familiar with my restless reading habits knows that only rarely do I ever finish a book – and never in a timely fashion.