Mona Acts Out” by Mischa Berlinski is a brilliant and funny novel with insights into how Shakespeare offers us mere mortals a ...

Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski's ...

In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the preoccupied eponymous heroine flees a house full of company.

Mischa Berlinski’s shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge ...

One notable simile in Antony and Cleopatra is uttered by a character of Shakespeare’s own invention, Scarus, according to whom Antony absents himself from the Battle of Actium “like a doting mallard”.

She, in turn, wonders whether she should cheat on him with a sexy former lover who has been cast opposite her in an upcoming production of “Antony and Cleopatra.” She also worries about her ...

Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...