East of Eden is an Atlantic crossing
The new Netflix adaptation is epic, if epic means slow
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Nicholas Harris
Nicholas Harris is Senior Commissioning Editor (Ideas) at the New Statesman. He is also the TV critic. nicholas.harris@newstatesman.co.uk
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