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Kelly Link upholds and upturns conventions

Fantasy

Book Review

Kelly Link upholds and upturns conventions

The Book of Love, her debut novel, brilliantly takes on fantasy tropes

Philip Womack

The magnetism of His Dark Materials

Pullman’s color palette is of vibrant grays. He rejects absolute goods and evils

Matt Purple

The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself is riveting

Unlike so many gore-fests it never forgets that its main job is not to gross you out but to entertain you

James Delingpole

The heart of The Rings of Power

Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation does justice to the aesthetics as well as the ethics of his world

Hannah Long

And Finally

A visit to the Renaissance Faire

Who needs the metaverse when you can be transported to another time and place?

Teresa Mull

Television
September 3, 2022
The Game of Thrones prequel is shaping up nicely for some truly epic bloodletting
House of the Dragon could do with some of the light relief, however
James Delingpole
Book Review
April 18, 2022
Faeries and queens
Flint and Mirror by John Crowley reviewed
Philip Womack
Film
April 7, 2022
Time to slay J.K. Rowling’s ‘Fantastic Beasts’
Let’s hope the latest film in the series is the last
Alexander Larman
Book Review
March 11, 2022
A magical epic
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James reviewed
John Burnside
Television
December 9, 2021
Amazon’s The Wheel of Time is even worse than the book
Robert Jordan’s trite and lumbering dialogue desperately needed a spice-up before being let anywhere near a TV screen
James Delingpole
Gaming
June 28, 2021
Dungeons and Dragons goes woke
Do today’s players care if orcs are racist?
Phillip Nieto
Books
May 3, 2020
A time for Ice and Fire
Why you should spend the lockdown reading George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series
Jonathan Kay
Books
May 16, 2019
Writers blocked: Even fantasy fiction is now offensive
Persecution is endemic in the vicious world of Young Adult publishing
Karen Yossman
Books
February 21, 2019
Tolkien in Africa
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James reviewed
John Burnside
Books
October 11, 2018
The passions of Paulo
Enigma Variations by André Aciman reviewed
Philip Womack

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