You may appreciate the play Hamnet because you loved Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel or the 2025 film directed by Chloé Zhao. In either case, your view of the Hamnet story […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamnet makes its U.S. premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater this week—but the title is already a familiar one. Book lovers know that Hamnet originated […]

The cinema has been feeding us a steady diet of sad mothers in recent weeks. When I saw Rose Byrne tear up the screen in If I Had Legs I’d […]