The Stubborn Myth of the Literary Genius
What two new books on the English Renaissance reveal about the appeal of speculative history
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Illustration by Anna Ruch / The Atlantic. Sources: Hulton Archive / Print Collector / Bettmann / Getty. When the Culture Wars Came for the Theater
A new book sees the reactionary response to a New Deal–era arts initiative as a precursor to today’s cultural divisions.
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