In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists. The pairings are promising: Margaret Atwood, a master of ecological dystopias, will reimagine "The Tempest," for instance, while Gillian Flynn, who knows her way around marriage and murder, will take on "Hamlet." The début novel in the series is more of a curveball: the versatile Je…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 07:24AM on November 10, 2015