Fantastic Textures in “The Spear Cuts Through Water” – Chicago Review of Books

Fantastic Textures in “The Spear Cuts Through Water” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Stories about story-telling itself always risk a kind of self-congratulatory triteness. As lovers of narrative, we’re already aware of the power of story, and hopefully self-aware enough to see how stories change our perception of ourselves, of the world; breathless paeans to the medium itself generally leave me, pardon the pun, uninspired. Tautology bordering … Read more

Cold Iron and Piercing Beauty in “Spear” – Chicago Review of Books

Cold Iron and Piercing Beauty in “Spear” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] We are surely—hopefully—nearing some kind of peak of cultural reboot fatigue, awash as we are in retellings, re-adaptations, and perpetually rebooting expanded cinematic universes. So it’s either an odd or an apt time to recommend a new entry in King Arthur stories, much-reinterpreted and pieced together from older traditions as those legends are. Fresh, … Read more