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It's been a long time coming, but The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about a boy who steals the priceless Carel Fabritius painting "The Goldfinch" from the Metropolitan Museum of Art - is finally coming to the big screen . John Crowley will direct , with Sarah Paulson playing Xandra, Ansel Elgort playing Theo, and Willa Fitzgerald, Finn Wolfhard, Nicole Kidman , and Ashleigh Cummings also appearing. Though you still have plenty of time to read the book before it hits theaters on Sept. 13 this year, we totally understand if you can't fit the 784-page tome into your busy schedule. If short books are more your thing , here's everything you need to know about Tartt's legendary novel. The novel is told from the perspective of Theodore "Theo" Decker, a 13-year-old living with his beloved mother in New York City. His story starts off with a bang (literally), when he and his mom visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an...

Decades after the catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, HBO gives an in-depth look at the accident in a five-part miniseries that stars Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, and Emily Watson. The chilling trailer looks as though it's a horror movie, but it's really based on a true story of a full-blown international crisis. The disaster is considered the worst nuclear plant disaster in human history, triggering harrowing health and economic effects. Before you watch the new show, here's what you need to know about the background and consequences of the tragic event. Where was Chernobyl? The Chernobyl plant was located around 60 miles away from Kiev near the small town of Pripyat in Ukraine. During the time of the nuclear disaster, Ukraine had still been part of the Soviet Union. Originally established in the '70s to accommodate plant workers , the now-abandoned Pripyat had a population of between 40,000 to 50,000 inhabitants . What caused the e...