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Lev Grossman’s ‘one fear’ for his King Arthur novel: People who expect more of The Magicians
It’s easy to think we’ve outgrown King Arthur. As one of the English-speaking world’s oldest and foundational works of fantasy, reinvented time and again for over a thousand years, it becomes hard to imagine what is left to mine from it in 2024. Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, it turns out, finds a dazzling amount.