Happy New Year, Friends! We start the year off right, with a little demonic conjuring and Borgia back-stabbing, in Barnabe Barnes’s The Devil’s Charter. We ‘Meet the Contemporary’ and tell you all about Barnes’s epic beef with Thomas Nashe; we give you a suuuuper gay (but also papal) ‘Taste of Text’; for our game we generate a playlist for your listening pleasure; and our ShakesBubble Gossip catches you up on what you missed over the winter break.