Borrowing Hamlet

July 26: On this day in 1602 “A booke called the Revenge of Hamlett Prince Denmarke” was entered in the Stationers’ Register by printer James Robertes.

Leavetaking

When excellence in theater, painting, and filmmaking wasn’t enough, a German iconoclast took up writing novels.

Agostino

A lost Italian novella of mother-son devotion is this summer’s least conventional beach read.