The problem with Ruined Earth Novels
In the New York Times Book Review’s holiday edition I review Robert Harris’s latest novel. It fails—as most ruined-earth novels do. Why? Entropy is a thing, baby.
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Arthur, Hild, and the challenge of the historical novel sequence
Wikimedia Commons Yesterday I started rereading Gillian Bradshaw’s Arthurian trilogy. I’ve always loved Hawk of May. And I like Kingdom of Summer…
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I’ve been waiting to be in a calm, reasonable, orderly frame of mind before writing about Camelot, the new epic mini series…
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