From the Publisher
"This updated edition of Macbeth reveals thorough research, it is conscientiously annotated, and it appears a superb tool for researchers and students involved in Shakespeare scholarship."
The Year's Work in English Studies
“I’m interested in how deceptions can make you feel more of yourself or can unlock something in you that you didn’t know you had.” Eleanor Catton, Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, is back with Birnam Wood —part eco-thriller, part social and political satire, wholly insightful. This propulsive novel is prescient, timely, and all-too relatable […]
When you’re a book nerd, the challenge of loving a TV show is finding books that will hit the same sweet spot while you wait for the next season to come along. That’s where we come in: if you’re a fan of any of these 10 new or returning shows, and need something to tide you over between seasons (or between […]
Greetings, gumshoes! March may have gone out like a lamb, but April’s new crop of mysteries is roaring in. From a gritty retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth by the peerless Jo Nesbø, to the story of a long-lost daughter whose sudden reappearance brings nothing but trouble, this month’s crop of whodunits is ready to surprise you […]
Hail the hirsute, usher in the unshaven, and salute the stubble, for the month of mustaches is upon us. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you may have noticed that every November, men are suddenly hairier. Whether they’re sporting a sprinkling of whiskers or lustrous locks along their lip line, men have been shirking their […]
Books about witches are great every day of the year. I will happily read about witches on Christmas Day, Memorial Day, and every day in between. But around Halloween, I, and everyone else in the universe, really start craving a good witch—by which I mean a bad witch. Not every witch is a bad witch. Being able to cast […]