When Marvel Meets “Much Ado About Nothing”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Every age, we kid ourselves, gets the Shakespeare it deserves—or, with any luck, the Shakespeare it badly needs. Take a famous example: to read about the Federal Theatre Project’s production of…

Welcome to the Preschool Plague Years

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and the particular high-wattage, full-dimple grin she usually reserves for dashing gleefully…

Why Do We Want to Believe That Jim Morrison Is Still Alive?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s something that has always struck me as undeniably teen-age about loving the Doors, and particularly its lead singer, Jim Morrison. The rock group, which was active for only eight years,…