novels
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Disney’s Percy Jackson Series Could Have A WandaVision-Level Budget
Percy Jackson is a franchise close to the hearts of Millennials everywhere. Here’s what we know so far about the show.
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Lev Grossman Talks the Joy of Writing for Children in His Newest Novel, The Silver Arrow
If you’ve come to Lev Grossman from his most popular work, The Magicians series of novels, his newest is going to be something of a departure. The Silver Arrow is his first middle-grade book, a story of an 11-year-old girl named Kate and an enchanted train given to her as a gift by her eccentric…
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Guide To The Classics: Albert Camus’ The Plague
Some weeks ago, I got an email from a student who had returned to Northern Italy over Christmas to see family.
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How Crime Books Embraced Lurid Green
Green is a colour that evokes nature, fecundity, sustainability. At the traffic lights it signals go; on a boat, starboard. It’s a soft celadon glaze; an intense Van Eyck wedding dress; frothy, aromatic matcha tea; aurora borealis; a meditative praying mantis. It’s jungle camouflage, Joyce’s snotgreen sea, green mould and Martians. If green had a…