Jonah Kent Richards

One of the great pleasures of reading enough of the plays of William Shakespeare is that, after a while, you feel like you know him. British actor Patrick Stewart famously stated, “...he feels like an old friend—someone who just went out [...] to get another bottle of wine.” While Shakespeare scholars have succeeded in creating a rough Shakespeare biography based on historical documents, many of them will admit that there are large gaps in our knowledge.

Like many American kids who grew up between 1981 and 2011, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and orbiting the Earth in a Space Shuttle.

I first heard Taylor Swift’s song “The Fate of Ophelia” on the radio during a road trip to New Hampshire the day after it was released on October 3.

When I first learned about Hamlet: Book One of the Post-ApocalypticSpace Shakespeare by American novelist Ted Neill, I was immediately intrigued. While not the first science fiction Shakespeare, Neill’s attempt to produce a complete series represents a noteworthy Shakespeare project. As of September 2025, Neill has published his version of Hamlet, Othello, and Twelfth Night with “many more” listed as planned. He appears to want to produce all 37 plays.

As we approach Halloween this October, I thought a story about the supernatural would be the most appropriate book review choice.