Last weekend, news broke that a long-awaited adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel The Custom of the Country—which biographer Hermione Lee has called the writer’s greatest work—is no longer moving forward. The project was in the capable hands of Oscar-winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola who, since at least early 2020, had been working on a five-hour … Continue reading The Most Unlikable Woman: On Sofia Coppola’s Stymied Quest to Bring Undine Spragg to Screen