Shapeshifting quasi-human felines, demons that walk upon ceilings, and a man with a super-sharp nose, oh my! Marlon James’ latest novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” contains all of the above, telling the ...

Some readers may be surprised that Marlon James has followed up his epic, critically acclaimed, 2015 Man Booker-winning “A Brief History of Seven Killings” with a fantasy novel. “Black Leopard, Red ...

They call him Tracker, a “hunter known by no other name” who, for the right price, will find anyone you need found. His reputation as a pitiless, brutal man proceeds him; his nose, it’s been whispered ...

Early in Marlon James' astounding fantasy epic Black Leopard Red Wolf, a shape-shifting mermaid named Bunshi tells the tale of a powerful man destroyed by demons. "The Leopard," James writes, "his ...

The fantasy genre has long been saturated with the myths of Europe. Marlon James’ fourth novel offers a stunning corrective, drawing instead on African mythology and history for its tropes, character ...

Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Warner Bros. have acquired the film rights to the epic fantasy novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James. The first novel of the Dark Star trilogy, “Black ...

Stand aside, Beowulf. There’s a new epic hero slashing his way into our hearts, and we may never get all the blood off our hands. Marlon James is a Jamaican-born writer who won the 2015 Man Booker ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. “It was really very simple!” James says. “I was trying to write a fantasy epic based on African mythology.

Sometimes, just the first line of a novel is enough to suggest how great it’s going to be. To take the most obvious example, “Call me Ishmael” reverberates through two centuries as a deceptively ...

Stand aside, Beowulf. There’s a new epic hero slashing his way into our hearts, and we may never get all the blood off our hands. Marlon James is a Jamaican-born writer who won the 2015 Man Booker ...

This book cover image released by Riverhead Books shows "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" by by Marlon James. (Riverhead Books via AP) "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" (Riverhead Books), by Marlon James "Black ...

Around a quarter of Himalayan snow leopard and wolf diets are livestock, the rest being wild prey, according to a new study. Around a quarter of Himalayan snow leopard and wolf diets are livestock, ...