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Tag: New Yorker
Shakespearian conspiracy theories
by Natalia
Current Affairs + Film + History / October 31, 2011
I was pretty excited over the weekend to hear that Roland Emmerich's new movie Anonymous is out. I love me a good Elizabethan costume drama—the clothes, the language, the political intrigue! If you haven't heard of it, the film dramatizes the Oxfordian theory of authorship—the idea that Shakespeare's plays were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford (who, as various people have pointed out, died several years before the publication of The Tempest).
The film has triggered a positively apoplectic response from the scholarly community; the New Yorker's David Denby calls it a story "so rotten that, as Shakespeare, or, rather, Oxford, might put it, the kites wheel and shriek rather than batten on so foul a carcass."
Personally, I find the authorship question rather silly—I prefer to read the plays for themselves rather than scan them Da Vinci Code-style for hidden clues to their composition. And why fabricate conspiracy theories when so much historically accurate skulduggery exists? If you like your Shakespeare spiced with criminal intrigue yet still backed up by rigorous scholarship, may I suggest:
The Shakespeare Thefts
Stealing the World's Most Famous Book
Click on the cover for more info!
Power
by Dan
Art & Photography + Current Affairs / March 07, 2011
Platon is staff photographer for The New Yorker, and recipient of the prestigious World Press Photo Award and National Magazine Photo Portfolio Award.
In Power, available from Chronicle Books next month, Platon turns his lens on 150 international leaders from across the political spectrum.
Shot over 12-months at the United Nations, the photographs offer an intimate glimpse of the world's most powerful decision-makers.
With text by New Yorker editor and Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick, the book is a comprehensive historical record of our time and a must-have for anyone interested in world politics.
When Do They Serve The Wine?
by Dan
Graphica / October 26, 2010
Box: The Face of Boxing
by Dan
Art & Photography / October 04, 2010
We are very lucky at Raincoast to distribute some beautiful photography books. Past favourites include Bird, The Life & Love of Trees, Great White, and The Graphic Eye. This season includes stunning books like Tulip Anthology, Mick Rock Exposed, Humanity, The Travel Book, and Holger Keifel's extraordinary, raw Box: The Face of Boxing.
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Perhaps the most extraordinary collection of boxing portraits ever assembled, Box features more than 300 black-and-white portraits of the living legends of the sport.
The New Yorker's Photo Booth blog recently talked to Keifel about the book:
