“The Tragedy of Arthur,” a novel by Arthur Phillips, is a bold and tangled work in two acts. The first is a faux-memoir, in which Phillips’s father, also an Arthur Phillips, has discovered a ...

The beloved, but anonymous, author who was mugged in Fort Greene Park last week was — drum roll, please — Cobble Hill writer Arthur Phillips! The blogosphere went bananas after The Brooklyn Paper ...

Bad fathers can make for great stories: Think of Hansel and Gretel's dad; Huck Finn's; Cronus in Greek mythology, who ate his own children; think especially of Shakespeare's Lear, Titus Andronicus, ...

Even in the least intricate of Phillips’s novels, The Song is You, word games and vaunted cleverness abound. That novel is an account of a year in a man’s life as he attempts to forget the wreckage of ...

Arthur Phillips has nerve: to wit, what other author who has written about an undiscovered Shakespeare play actually writes the play and includes it for the readers' delectation? Arthur Phillips is ...

First, the MacGuffin: Arthur Phillips’ fifth novel, “The Tragedy of Arthur,” is built around a full-length, five-act Shakespeare play, “The Most Excellent and Tragical Historie of Arthur, King of ...

TREDYFFRIN, Pa. (CBS)-- A high school employee is accused of sexually assaulting an underage female student. The Tredyffrin Police Department arrested 67-year-old Arthur Phillips, an instructional ...

The Tragedy of Arthur is a play within a novel within a mystery. Arthur Phillips and his twin sister, Dana, grew up with a love of Shakespeare imbued by their father, also Arthur Phillips, who has a ...

In his high-concept The Tragedy of Arthur (Random House, $26), Arthur Phillips invents a fictional character named Arthur Phillips who discovers an unknown Shakespeare manuscript (also called The ...