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September 2020

September's Books on Screen roundup includes the Netflix releases of The Devil All the Time, I'm Thinking of Ending Things and Enola Holmes; the biographical film The Glorias on Amazon Prime Video; the premieres of "A Wilderness of Error" on FX and "The Comey Rule" on Showtime; the continuation of HBO's "Lovecraft Country"; and the DVD release of First Cow.

Week of July 9, 2012

In John Boyne's THE ABSOLUTIST, Tristan Sadler is delivering a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft --- the man he fought alongside during the Great War. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will. The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery, as well as confusion and unbearable pain.