From An Essay In The New Yorker Comments

From an essay in The New Yorker
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
The New Yorker and The Walrus have a bad habit of arriving at our doorstep whenever it pleases them. I am in the middle of a nail biter, William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, not to mention technical and textile projects. Of course, these magazines interrupt my progress in the other areas.
But to commend the magazine (April 13th,2020) , it has a really nice pedantic piece which caught my eye because the God of English literature, Shakespeare, has been attributed with some phrases which are used in today's world. Primary among these is the apt phrase, wild goose chase.
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