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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Monsters and madness and men, oh my! The Terror is the unsung treasure of peak television

Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Dan Simmons, it chronicles a doomed Royal Navy expedition dispatched to the Arctic in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. Under the leadership of Captains Sir John Franklin and Francis Crozier, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, manned with 129 crew, set sail from England in 1845. They became locked in pack ice off King William Island in the winter of 1846.
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fromVulture
1 month ago
Books

What's a Satirist to Do in Times Like These?

An oil executive confronts his role in causing mass death and climate catastrophe on his deathbed as supernatural visitors press him to face the consequences.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

George Saunders Has a New Mantra

George Saunders writes with a luminous, frequently supernatural imagination that pairs large-heartedness with unsparing wit and a ritualized, anywhere-capable writing practice.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

I knew I was doing something I shouldn't': Karl Ove Knausgard on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition

Karl Ove Knausgard's new novel, The School of Night, explores artistic ambition, moral cost, and a supernatural return of the dead set in 1985 London.
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