Publications

Articles

A Symposium on Anxiety (external link)
. The Threepenny Review
, September, 2020
Witness to a Mystery (external link)
. The New York Review of Books
, June, 2020
What Shakespeare Actually Wrote About the Plague (external link)
. The New Yorker
, May, 2020
The Strange Terror of Watching the Coronavirus Take Rome (external link)
. The New Yorker
, March, 2020
Invisible Bullets: What Lucretius Taught Us About Pandemics (external link)
. The New Yorker
, March, 2020
Damn It All (external link)
. The New York Review of Books
, December, 2018
Elon Musk wants to put chips in our brains. I'd prefer to stay human. (external link)
. The Guardian
, December, 2018
Shakespeare’s Close Call with Tyranny (external link)
. The New Yorker
, May, 2018
Why Holiday Stories Matter (external link)
. The New York Times
, December, 2017
The Tree of Knowledge, Good, and Evil (external link)
. The Paris Review
, September, 2017
Sex in the Garden (external link)
. The Paris Review
, September, 2017
The Day After (external link)
. The Paris Review
, September, 2017
What Chimpanzees Can Teach Us About Adam and Eve (external link)
. The New Yorker
, September, 2017
Eating the Fruit (external link)
. The Paris Review
, September, 2017
Shakespeare’s Cure for Xenophobia (external link)
. The New Yorker
, July, 2017
The Trump family shouldn’t fight Shakespeare. They’ll lose. (external link)
. The Washington Post
, June, 2017
How St. Augustine Invented Sex (external link)
. The New Yorker
, June, 2017
The King of the Bitter Laugh (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, April, 2017
Their Hours Upon the Stage: Performing ‘Hamlet’ Around the World (external link)
. The New York Times
, April, 2017
Can We Ever Master King Lear? (external link)
. The New York Review of Books
, February, 2017
Shakespeare Explains the 2016 Election (external link)
. The New York Times
, October, 2016
How Shakespeare Lives Now (external link)
. The New York Review of Books
, April, 2016
The Jewish Poet of Love (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, January, 2016
The Traces of Shakespeare’s Life (external link)
. Memoria di Shakespeare: A Journal of Shakespearean Studies.
, December, 2015
Flourishing of Literary Inventiveness: A Conversation with Stephen Greenblatt
. PERSPECTIVES
, December, 2015
Perspectives.pdf
Teaching a Different Shakespeare From the One I Love (external link)
. New York Times Magazine
, September, 2015
‘The Millionaire and the Bard,’ by Andrea E. Mays, Book Review (external link)
. The New York Times Sunday Book Review
, May, 2015
Shakespeare in Tehran (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, March, 2015
The Naughty Pleasures of Boccaccio (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, January, 2015
Wondrous, Fragile, Tedious Berkeley (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, February, 2014
On the Edge of Slander (external link)
. The New York Review of Books
, September, 2013
The Shape of a Life (external link)
. The New Yorker
, February, 2013
Glories of Classicism (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, February, 2013
Call of the Wild (external link)
. The New York Times
, February, 2013
Donna Brookman: Aorist and fullflood (external link)
. Gray Heron Press
, February, 2013
A Man of Principle (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, March, 2012
The Answer Man (external link)
. The New Yorker
, August, 2011
The Lonely Gods (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, June, 2011
Shakespeare and the Will to Deceive (external link)
. The New York Times
, April, 2011
Shakespeare and Shylock (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, September, 2010
Shakespeare in No Man's Land (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, December, 2009
How It Must Have Been (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, November, 2009
A Great Dane Goes to The Dogs (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, March, 2009
In the Night Kitchen (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, July, 2008
The Jewish King Lear (external link)
. The New Republic
, March, 2008
Howl, Howl, Howl! (external link)
. New Republic
, March, 2008
Stroking (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, November, 2007
Writing as Performance (external link)
. Harvard Magazine
, October, 2007
Shakespeare and the Uses of Power (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, April, 2007
Who Killed Christopher Marlowe? (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, April, 2006
Words that shrink distances between cultures (external link)
. Los Angeles Times
, April, 2005
The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, October, 2004
Friends, Americans, Countrymen... (external link)
. The New York Times
, October, 2004
Shakespeare's Leap (external link)
. The New York Times
, September, 2004
Me, Myself, and I (external link)
. New York Review of Books
, April, 2004
Curiosity Is Destiny (external link)
. The New York Times
, February, 1998
Resonance and Wonder
. Smithsonian Institution Press
, January, 1992
Karp-Levine.pdf