‘Wicker’ Review: Olivia Colman Orders a Man Made of Wood in a Bawdy Fable Perfectly Suited for Anyone Tempted to Marry Their AI Chatbot

In Ursula Wills-Jones’ 2008 short story “The Wicker Husband” (crafted to sound like it was written a couple centuries earlier), an unpleasant fisherwoman in an unenlightened medieval town asks the local basketmaker to weave her a partner. From there, the fable could be “Pinocchio” for adults, only it’s not the wooden creation’s nose that grows, […]