In one of Roald Dahl’s best movie adaptations, Matilda, it’s easy to send a lot of love to the title character. She was a book lover, knew how to adapt to hostile environments, and was telepathic! Yes ...

In Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel Matilda, Agatha Trunchbull is the formidable headmistress of Crunchem Hall elementary school, where she swings a “naughty” student by her pigtails and forces ...