Tana Wojczuk

Tana Wojczuk is the author of Lady Romeo: The Radical, Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Publishing Triangle Award, and Marfield Prize in Arts Writing. Her essays, reporting, and reviews have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, Vice, and Slate.

Back Draft: Rebecca Donner

By and November 2, 2021
The author discusses her family's connection to the Nazi resistance in Germany and writing through historical gaps.

The Vanity of Crowds

By August 16, 2016

Shakespeare warned against treating democracy as a popularity contest.

On Shakespeare

By June 23, 2016

Is Shakespeare Dead? Sex, Class, and Comedy.

The Riddle of Trevor Nunn’s Pericles

By March 30, 2016

Is Shakespeare Dead?: A production of Shakespeare’s Pericles offers both promise and frustration.

Shakespeare on the Frontier

By February 11, 2016

Is Shakespeare Dead?: A cultural inferiority complex leads to a quirky vision of the Bard.

The Good Wife–Hillary Clinton as Lady Macbeth

By January 19, 2016
Along with First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State, there’s one other title she just can’t seem to be rid of.

Eric Drooker and Molly Crabapple: Street Art and the New Bohemian

By July 16, 2012

The two visual artists on the gravitas needed to make protest art, the rhetoric and representations of the Occupy movement, and how to seduce an audience by grabbing them by the eyeballs.

Michael Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy

By May 1, 2012

Michael Sandel on a society where everything could be up for sale.