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    Conservatism is Always Evolving

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    Awards

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    The Hub

    Adam Sandler in space, Mindy Kaling in bed: the week in literary film and TV news.

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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

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    The Hub

    Read Percy Shelley’s review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

    By Book Marks  October 30, 2020
    Horror

    The 52 Best Draculas, Ranked

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 30, 2020
    Fascism

    Lilly Wachowski: Refuse Fascism, at the Ballot Box and in the Street

    By Lilly Wachowski  October 30, 2020
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    By Alexandra Kleeman  October 30, 2020
    horror films

    Wonder or Horror? On the Dark Side of Our Reverence for Nature

    By Tyler Malone  October 30, 2020
    Halloween

    A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

    By Roy A. Meals, MD  October 30, 2020
    Film Criticism

    Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

    By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2020
    Witches

    A Witch’s Rules of Matrimony

    By Lucile Scott  October 30, 2020
    Keen On

    Is the Republican Party a Party of Traitors?

    By Keen On  October 30, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Pete Souza on When Generosity of Spirit Reigned in Politics

    By The Literary Life  October 30, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

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    The Hub

    When Boris Pasternak, under fire from Soviet authorities, turned down a Nobel Prize.

    By Corinne Segal  October 29, 2020
    Film

    Screen legend Sophia Loren is back in an adaptation of a Goncourt Prize-winning novel.

    By Aaron Robertson  October 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Are bookstores essential businesses? In France, they’re making the case.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 29, 2020
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    Mindy Kaling is set to star in an adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s Good in Bed.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 29, 2020
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    Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy is getting the perfect audiobook narrator.

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    Criticism

    Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
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    By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
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    Protest

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    A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

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