The Shards is Murphy’s latest drama since completing Feud: Capote vs. The Swans and Monster: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. The television auteur took over the project after it got stuck in ...

Xi Jinping’s ideological upbringing; extinctions and the dubious ethics of reviving lost species; a belated English translation of a Swedish cult classic; a Ukrainian novel of war and snails ...

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