- It’s the final match up in the 2020 Tournament of Books!
- Deborah Fallows reports on libraries around the country that are helping their communities beyond offering books and computers. (The Atlantic)
- Sarah Lyall reflects on the books we read in times of crisis. (The New York Times)
- Maria Popova argues for a new inventor of science fiction. (Brain Pickings)
- Everyone’s been tossing around the fact Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine, but Daniel Pollack-Pelzner has the “real” story. (The New Yorker)
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Shakespeare also wrote the great narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece while in lockdown during the 1592-4 plague years. He knew all about closing the theatres.