“Normal People” stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones have shown their support for author Sally Rooney after the Irish author’s books were pulled from U.K. shelves over her support for Palestine Action, arguing in an open letter that Rooney is “a writer, not a terrorist.”
The love stories of Jane Austen might be set in England’s Regency era of stiff gender norms and even stiffer social hierarchies, but their appeal is timeless. Austen’s novels have been adapted over and over for film and television. Sometimes they are set within their traditional setting, like Ang Lee’s rapturous Sense and Sensibility,Joe Wright’s…
