Jack Lynch

CITY HALL — The City Council on Tuesday is slated to consider a $67,000 offer from Westwind Properties to buy public property and create a "campus-like" atmosphere for prospective businesses. The controversial request, which has drawn the ire of...

Like a lot of people these days, Josh Ledebur struggles to pay his mortgage. What makes this schoolteacher's story unexpected is that he's participating in a city affordable-housing program. Ledebur is asking the city to change terms of his affordable-...

Newport Beach residents Madison Browning and Haley Atkins won gold medals at the So Cal South State Championships for the compulsory levels 4-5-6 in girls' gymnastics last month. Competing in Level 4, Atkins won gold medals on the balance beam, floor...

The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare A Tale of Forgery and Folly Doug Stewart Da Capo: 230 pp., $24.95 Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare? Not always. Between November 1794 and April 1796, Shakespeare was actually a teenage ne'er-do-well named William...

Jack lynch is one of our most formidable and engaging scholars of Samuel Johnson, so we might locate the inspiration for this new book in a particularly elegant paragraph the great doctor wrote in 1765 for the preface to his own monumental eight-volume...

October 24, 2007 With this piece, we introduce a series of occasional articles in which contemporary writers look back at classic works of literature. Here, Jack Lynch, the author of "Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a...