Isaac Butler
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your Ears: King LearWhat happens when your country is run by an aging narcissist who may not be entirely stable?
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Did Richard II Provoke an Elizabethan Rebellion?Why Shakespearians are obsessed with one 1601 performance.
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Lend Me Your Ears: Richard IIWhich is the more legitimate king—the one chosen by God or the one chosen by the people?
Trumpcast
The Psychic Tyranny of Shakespeare’s TyrantsHow the work of the playwright is useful to understanding our modern politics.
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Lend Me Your Ears: Julius CaesarWhy was Shakespeare so fascinated by the fall of the Roman Republic?
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “The Great Work Begins” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Angels in America, The World Only Spins Forward, and Love, Simon.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Trundle-Tail Dog” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on BPM, Babylon Berlin, and Shakespeare’s plagiarism.
Brow Beat
Plagiarism Software’s New Discovery About Shakespeare Is an Opportunity to Rethink His GeniusThe Bard of Avon wasn’t a plagiarist, but genius isn’t born in a vacuum.
Wide Angle
Taylor Sheridan Isn’t the Next Great American ScreenwriterHe’s the next Nic Pizzolatto, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado is his True Detective Season 2.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “Unkindest Cut of All” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Hereditary, The Staircase, and Lend Me Your Ears.
Mom and Dad Are Fighting
Mom and Dad Are Fighting: “Great Grandma Name Debate” EditionDoes a grandma get to name herself “Nema”?
Lend Me Your Ears
Lend Me Your EarsIntroducing Slate’s new podcast miniseries on Shakespeare and politics.
Brow Beat
Barry’s Class ActThe HBO series’ hit-man-goes-to-acting-school conceit gives way to a subtle satire on the lust for fame.
Brow Beat
Errol Morris on His Movie—and Long Friendship—With Stephen HawkingThe Brief History of Time filmmaker remembers one-liners, lobster dinners, and the time the astrophysicist offered to speak to his son’s math teacher about a grade.
Wide Angle
Angels in North CarolinaHow one Southern theater won a culture battle but lost the culture wars.
Wide Angle
He Already Has Two Tonys and a Pulitzer. Now Tracy Letts Is Having Another Moment.A mostly truthful interview with the actor and playwright about finding his place in Hollywood and why his new play isn’t about Trump.
Television
Why Errol Morris Reinvented His Approach for His New Netflix SeriesThe master documentarian on abandoning the Interrotron, doubling down on dramatizations, and why he’s still not done with Wormwood.
Culture Gabfest
The Culture Gabfest “We’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe” EditionSlate’s Culture Gabfest on Blade Runner 2049, Season 4 of Transparent, and Harvey Weinstein.