![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() James’ mode is “grimdark,” the subset of speculative fiction George R.R. Although at one point we encounter “two halflings, one leaving a thick trail of pipe smoke,” there are no cozy, Shire-like enclaves in the world of Black Leopard, Red Wolf. That said, Game of Thrones is the most apt comparison. (I’m pretty sure I even caught a whiff of Robert Browning at one point.) Fagunwa, whose Forest of a Thousand Daemons was the first novel published in the Yoruba language. The novel is a delirious smoothie of cultural influences and tributes, from Kurosawa films to superhero comics to the seminal work of the 1930s Nigerian writer D.O. Black Leopard, Red Wolf-James’ first major work since then-will strike many as a radical departure: It is the first in an epic fantasy trilogy set on a fictional continent loosely based on Iron Age Africa. Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings-a panoramic, multivocal portrait of his hometown, Kingston, Jamaica, around the time of an assassination attempt on Bob Marley-was a literary reputation-maker, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize, and one of the great city novels of the past five decades. These Classic Mysteries Offer a Very Modern Gender TwistĪfter My Friend Died, It Was My Job to Go Through His Unpublished Writing. Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men Guess What? This Mystery Story Written by Robots Is Kind of Good! ![]()
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