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...disputations about the number of Lady Macbeth's children or Hamlet's course of study at Wittenberg were actually engaged in nothing more than romantic woolgathering. But the urge to think of Shakespeare's people as real dies hard, and woolgathering has its charms, as John Updike wittily demonstrates anew in Gertrude and Claudius (Knopf; 212 pages; $23). This novel ends where Shakespeare's Hamlet begins--after Act I, Scene 2, to be precise--and fills in the story of what the dramatis personae might have been up to before their tragic undoings at Elsinore...
...call "Egos." Essentially, it's a matter of sharing a beer with the best, in their mind. To our surprise, after two hours, we were rather convinced. Gould, Dershowitz and Cox present something novel and exciting in the humdrum lives of us undergraduates: professors interested in examining issues anew--learning and thinking with a class--and not just repeating the same dry lectures they have to dust off each year and show up to give (e.g. Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
...shot of Scotch, of red wine. Take a shot: vaccines are on the way soon that will prevent pneumonia, rheumatic fever, meningitis and the flu. There's a new prospect called regenerative medicine--using the body's own stem cells and growth factors to repair tissue. We make ourselves anew...
...JITNEY With all the fashionable cynicism around, August Wilson's warm-spirited embrace of his characters looks almost radical. This early work, given a "definitive" rewrite by Wilson and staged anew in Boston and Baltimore, immerses us in the day-to-day life of a gypsy cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., and proves once again that Wilson is one of our most accomplished, full-bodied dramatists...
...question is old but still stimulating and provocative, as historian Susan Dunn demonstrates anew in Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light (Faber and Faber; 258 pages; $26). In presenting her lively analysis, Dunn, a history professor at Williams College, relies heavily on the words, both public utterances and private correspondence, of the participants in the two revolutions. They, of course, did not enjoy the hindsight afforded by history, and it is fascinating to watch them proceeding through trial and error along the unmapped paths toward democracy...