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In 1901, 19 year old Mary MacLane wrote about her love for her “anemone lady” and her frustration with living in a small Western town where opportunities were few and opportunities for women were fewer. She wrote “oh, kind Devil, deliver me from it!”

"Asteroid City" stars literally everyone you’d expect to see in a Wes Anderson movie and also Tom Hanks.

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Akhavan’s film of acceptance and optimism feels as urgent as ever.

Rhode Island (William Morrow) The week before Halloween seemed the ideal moment to pick up the 617-page epic horror novel “Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M. Danforth. The tangled story toggles between a cursed Rhode Island boarding school for girls during the early 1900s and present day when a group of queer women return to film a movie about the school’s fabled history. Danforth writes with humor and is at her brilliant best with vivid female character portrayals, who are as wild and unpre...