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Why Does Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’ Perpetuate the Hidden Figure of Henrietta Lacks?

Why Does Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’ Perpetuate the Hidden Figure of Henrietta Lacks?

Alex Garland relied on HeLa easter eggs to proffer a "key" to the Shimmer in Annihilation, but his interpretation mimics the instrumentalization decried throughout Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.