In T.H. White’s conclusion to his “The Once and Future King” series, it’s understood that the king will be killed by the traitor Mordred at the Battle of Camlann. In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s “Historia ...
Polygon: Lev Grossman’s ‘one fear’ for his King Arthur novel: People who expect more of The Magicians
Lev Grossman’s ‘one fear’ for his King Arthur novel: People who expect more of The Magicians
“You can slash a book,” says the narrator of Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose. “There are different ways to measure depth, but not many readers measure a book’s depth with a knife, making a cut ...
Town & Country: Lev Grossman on Writing a King Arthur Story for 2024 in The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman on Writing a King Arthur Story for 2024 in The Bright Sword
Orange County Register: The end of King Arthur? That’s where Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’ begins
The end of King Arthur? That’s where Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’ begins
The stories about King Arthur are almost certainly false or greatly exaggerated, but did the man himself exist?
The New York Times: King Arthur Is Dead. Long Live King Arthur!
In Lev Grossman’s new book, “The Bright Sword,” an eager adventurer stumbles into a Camelot that has fallen into hopelessness and disarray after the death of the king. Credit...Hayden Goodman ...
It’s easy to think we’ve outgrown King Arthur. As one of the English-speaking world’s oldest and foundational works of fantasy, reinvented time and again for over a thousand years, it becomes hard to ...