BY DAVID CAMPBELL Back in the days when secondary school still demanded actual reading and the accompanying book reports, the literary canon was imposed upon us with all the subtlety of a blunt instrument: Steinbeck, Orwell, Melville, Wilde, Miller, Chaucer, Dickens, Brontë, Austen, and — looming over the lot like a Shakespearean ghost — the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare himself. Among these compulsory … Continue reading An American Runs with the Bulls