You’ve heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging books by their titles? Despite the perennial admonitions from good-natured and tolerant book-lovers, I daresay we all do it all the time: take on...

I do not want to talk about the soundtrack.   Okay, maybe I do, but just to get it out of the way so we can focus on other aspects of the movie! There were a lot of literature purists, snobby post-graduates, and people who...