An Adaptation That’s Both ‘Excellent’ and ‘Bizarre’

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Somewhere in the back of my closet sits a strange relic: a virtual-reality viewer made of cardboard. The only thing I remember watching on it, in 2017, was a 10-minute adaptation of George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. Produced by The New York Times, this 3-D, 360-degree experience was effectively a staged excerpt of the book—which features Abraham L

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