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Great Adaptations: The Zone of Interest on screen

This month over at Five Books For, I’m looking at books that explore the Holocaust from different angles. As living memory recedes, I’ve been thinking about the particular value of literature in preserving not only what happened, but our...

My hopes for House of the Dragon season 4 (please)

To the chagrin of children and beleaguered adults (it’s me, I am the beleaguered adult) everywhere, summer’s coming to an end, and with it, HBO’s House of the Dragon season 3 has come to an end as well. The season had its good points, and the...

“A thoroughly absorbing three-and-a-half-hour epic”: Game of Thrones: The Mad King review

Waiting with my daughter in the post-industrial foyer of Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, for Game of Thrones: The Mad King to start I contemplated my own relationship to fandom and our want for every narrative detail to be resolved...

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