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Hitchens has a wonderful eye for zany manifestations of Brit kitsch. In 1890, for example, some idealistic Shakespeareans decided to release in New York City's Central Park every bird mentioned by the bard -- more than 50 species in all -- that was not already native to the region. Instead of filling the city's air with the song of larks and nightingales, the experiment introduced to America the common European starling, a dirty, prolific pest that soon ousted New York's native bluebirds from their nesting places. If there is a moral here, Hitchens refrains from drawing...
...confessional or private negotiations between squabbling clans now tend to wind up as lawsuits. The old ways form a staple of conventional novels; the newer courtroom focus calls for a specialist. By accident and design, Turow has trained himself to write both these narratives at once. He is the Bard of the Litigious Age, an expert witness on the technicalities of the current stampede to litigation and on the ethical and emotional conundrums that accompany...
COVER: Scott Turow's new novel, The Burden of Proof, shows again why he is the Bard of the Litigious...
...spurs of warriors killed on the field of Agincourt), fake newspapers, propaganda photos, films and books. Some of these, like the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion, forged by a 19th century Russian anti-Semite, have had appalling political consequences. Others, like the work of the fictional bard Ossian and the skull of Piltdown man, have had deep cultural ones. Others still, like the phony mermaids that turned up in the cabinets of Renaissance collectors and the fraudulent photographs of fairies that deceived Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, may not have mattered greatly...
Shakespeare and the outdoors have had a long history together. From the plays set in the forest or health, to the performances of "Shakespeare in the Park" in New York City, thoughts of nature and the Bard are often intertwined...