Nowhere man: the challenges of tracking down Shakespeare
Germaine Greer looks for the real Shakespeare in James Shapiro’s 1606: the Year of Lear.
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The politics of health: a clear-eyed account of inequality and the NHS
The Health Gap: the Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot reviewed.
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Margaret Atwood on how an inspired polymath resurrected Native America’s epics
Robert Bringhurst and the rediscovery of the Haida mythtellers.
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Bohemian rhapsody: Jeanette Winterson’s “cover version” of The Winter’s Tale
Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time is full of metaphorical riches.
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Beyond the frame: the best recent graphic novels
Neel Mukherjee is moved and unsettled by everything from psychological realism to ghost stories.
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Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath: partners in martyrdom
Jonathan Bate’s unauthorised biography confirms that, no matter how energetic his love life, Hughes’s obsession with Plath never faded.
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Was there no one to stop Morrissey publishing List of the Lost?
Asking a decent editor to save this book would have been like asking a doctor to help a corpse that had…
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Shock of the new: the books that were ahead of their time
Experimental writing is not always immediately appreciated. As the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction announces its 2015 shortlist, we asked…
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