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Roald Dahl
March 15, 2023
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Roald Dahl and the Children’s Book Factory
Recent “sensitivity” edits to the author’s beloved yet unabashedly disagreeable novels are all about maintaining a lucrative intellectual property. But what difference can a few changed words really make?
May 30, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Shaking the Tree
The memoir of a professional tree-climber reveals the agony and the ecstasy of life at the top of the world.
March 21, 2018
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Christian Lorentzen
Good Boys
The earnest, ironic stylings of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs”
June 29, 2016
Will Leitch
The BFG
: A Bedtime Story for Gramps
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story is dreamy to look at, but lacks a youthful spark.
October 20, 2010
Zoë Heller
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