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Once upon a time, in 1994, disillusionment was de rigueur. It was the year of “The Ice Storm” and “Prozac Nation,” during the reign of Bret Easton Ellis. In this time lived a collector of…

George Saunders’ “Escape From Spiderhead” is the stuff of nightmares, or at least of mine: torture, mind control, lifelong regret. Published in the New Yorker in 2010 and collected in…

“Phil always did the castrating.” So begins Thomas Savage’s neglected American masterpiece, “The Power of the Dog.” For decades, filmmakers tried to adapt it, and one can understand the…

Roughly every month, Bonnie Johnson will be taking a critical look at the latest screen adaptations of books — from beloved classics to novels you’d otherwise never have known. This month:…