From TLS,  an essay on James Baldwin's letters to Istanbul; and a review of Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today: The actor's perspective and This Wide and Universal: Shakespeare in performance then and now by David Bevington. A review of Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall. 

A new issue of ForeWord is out. Haruki Murakami's existential musings: Sophie Ratcliffe reviews After Dark.  Room for enlightenment: Fifty years after Jack Kerouac published On The Road, Lowell celebrates a native son who helped define a generation. A review of What Is the What by Dave Eggers (and more). The real price of everything: A review of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley. Suffer, fight, become a saint: Excelling at submission has often been a way for women to compete with men.

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