William Shakespeare

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Books Briefing

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Technology

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Culture

The Importance of Critical Thinking in a Zombiefied World

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December 23, 2025

Trivia

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Culture

A Daring New Take on Shakespeare’s Most Famous Soliloquy

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December 15, 2025

Trivia

Atlantic Trivia on the Hittites, Hitchcock, Comics, and More

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Books Briefing

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Books

The Long History of the Hamnet Myth

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Culture

The Limits of the Year’s Most Heartbreaking Film

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Books

The Stubborn Myth of the Literary Genius

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Time-Travel Thursdays

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Shirley Li

May 15, 2025

Ideas

The Key to Critical Self-Awareness

Arthur C. Brooks

April 17, 2025

Books

What Shakespeare Got Right About PTSD

James Shapiro

March 21, 2025

Ideas

Firing the ‘Conscience’ of the Military

Paul Rosenzweig

March 3, 2025

Books Briefing

Why We Celebrate When Copyright Expires

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January 10, 2025

Ideas

The Right Way to Say the Unsayable

Arthur C. Brooks

September 19, 2024

Books

An Antidote to the Cult of Self-Discipline

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Ideas

Sleep More and Be Happier

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November 9, 2023

Ideas

Hands Off Shakespeare

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October 24, 2023

Culture

The Everyday Genius of Shakespeare in Love

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July 11, 2023

Books

A Hamlet for Our Age of Racial Reckoning

James Shapiro

June 18, 2023

Newsletters

Putting Shakespeare on Trial in His Own Anti-Semitic Play

Yair Rosenberg

June 12, 2023

Books Briefing

The Gift of Rereading

Nicole Acheampong

March 17, 2023

Culture

All of Shakespeare’s Plays Are About Race

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

March 10, 2023

Ideas

Why I Read King Lear Each Advent

Mark Labberton

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Books

The Books Briefing: The Writers Who Don’t Work Alone

Kate Cray

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Culture

Shakespeare Wrote His Best Works During a Plague

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March 14, 2020

Culture

Shakespeare and Company

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June 8, 2019

Culture

Shakespeare Didn’t Write Alone

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June 8, 2019

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