From TLS, an essay on Shakespeare's witchcraft, Ionesco's doubles. An award heard around the world? Ismail Kadare and the inaugural Man Booker International Prize: A review of The World Republic of Letters by Pascale Casanova; The Economy of Prestige by James English; Agamemnon’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories, Broken April, The File on H., and The Palace of Dreams, and The Successor by Ismael Kadare. Cars, Chairs, and Teapots, Oh My!: An impressive exhibition of Modernist objects, and a missed opportunity to say something about Modernism, at the Corcoran Gallery. From New York, The Approval Matrix: A deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on taste hierarchies. American Photo’s simple layout and easy-to-read charts will have even the most novice photographer drooling. A review of Nancy Cunard: Heiress,

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