https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review/best-books.html
In his latest book, the author of “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” and “1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare” has outdone himself. He takes two huge cultural hyper-objects — Shakespeare and America — and dissects the effects of their collision. Each chapter centers on a year with a different thematic focus. The first chapter, “1833: Miscegenation,” revolves around John Quincy Adams and his obsessive hatred of Desdemona. The last chapter, “2017: Left | Right,” where Shapiro truly soars, analyzes…
Professor Jack Halberstam provides another way of looking at queerness and queer bodies in a new book.
Carina del Valle Schorske is a current Graduate student in English and Comparative Literature.
