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American Horror Story Supreme Watch: A Final Look at the Contenders

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As American Horror Story: Coven lurches toward its surely mind-blowing conclusion on January 29, it is becoming very clear that creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk enjoy watching fans suffer along with their characters. Our Supreme will eventually be crowned, they promise, but not until each witchy contender has been repeatedly dismissed and then put back in the running. Quit playing games with our hearts, guys! We tried guessing every character’s chances of replacing Fiona Goode as leader the Coven last month in an exercise we called the AHS Supreme Watch, but since then, the rules have been both changed and changed again. Read More...

James Meek: rereading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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RereadingFiction'Tolstoy doesn't believe in "show, don't tell". He likes to show and tell'What is it about Anna Karenina that gives it special status among the great novels? How is it that a sensational romantic tragedy of tsarist high society, interspersed with digressions into 19th-century Russian agricultural policy, written in a seemingly plain, straightforward style across 900 pages, still provokes both excitement and respect from readers as diverse as JM Coetzee, Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey, and lures Tom Stoppard to write the script for the latest of a dozen film adaptations? Read More...

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