Bookish Diversions: Lights, Camera, Bookmarks!

Shōgun, 3 Body Problem, Netflix, J.K. Rowling, TV as Religion, TV as Literature, More

¶ Both/and, not either/or. We often think of film and literature as two distinct categories. Our parents drilled it into us as kids. “Don’t watch TV,” they said. “Read a book.” Good advice. But these days the distinction between the two worlds is collapsing—and has been, depending on how you look at it, for many years.

In my teens I worked at a used book…