From The New Criterion, Anthony Daniels discovers what ails Shakespeare’s King Lear. Old man redeemed: Ian McKellen takes a quieter, eventually wiser King Lear on tour (and an interview). Tiny Ninja Shakespeare! When it comes to quotability, no one, but no one, beats the Bard. 

Salman Rushdie has been made knight, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday, a reward for abandoning the anti-establishment stance he once espoused. Britain's most formidable literary couple: A new Pinter revival has opened to rave reviews, while his wife Antonia Fraser continues to write bestselling biographies. How did a working-class divorcee and a Catholic aristocrat become Britain's formidable literary couple? Kingsley Amis never quite caught on with Americans. Why not? asks Michael Dirda. Beyond Wives and Lovers: In a new book Between

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