It’s a sinister prediction, but I think we may be headed into an era of assassin stories. In the real world, where the arc of the moral universe seems quite content to be lagging its way through injustice, people are taking shots. On an impressively tight turnaround, pop culture is following suit: Netflix just released Death by Lightning (who but fans of the Sondheim and Weidman musical have thought about Charles Guiteau recently? And now we get Matthew Macfadyen playing him? What times!); the great Oh, Mary! itself could be read as a kind of revisionist take on the hand that holds the pistol; and now with Archduke , Rajiv Joseph, a playwright who loves delving through history , has imagined new life into Gavrilo Princip , the teenager who tipped Europe into World War I.

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