Fame’s inflection point

she-Shakespeare, monsters, and the artist’s magic image

Daedalus and Icarus by Pieter Lastman, 1600

Between Elizabeth Winkler’s Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies and Claire Dederer’s Monsters, I’m tempted to call this (in tight thematic relation to the work of hot second-novel summer) the summer of “the riddle of the artist.”

Both of these books are top-notch: erudite and meticulously researched, tho…