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Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first book in Marlon James' Dark Star Trilogy, was one of those novels that broke my brain in the best possible way. Unwieldy and unrelenting, it systematically dismantled ...

Marlon James’s “Moon Witch, Spider King,” the second book in his Dark Star trilogy, is both a continuation of the narrative that began with “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” in 2019 and an outstanding ...