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 ...

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 ...

Black Leopard, Red Wolf opens with the lines "The child is dead. There is nothing left to know" — a statement impressively belied by the book's subsequent 620 pages.

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 ...

Yet Black Leopard Red Wolf spends hundreds and hundreds of pages tracking its many twists and permutations. The opacity here is clearly a deliberate choice on James’s part.

“Black Leopard, Red Wolf” was influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien and African legends and myth, but in fact, the richly rewarding novel, first of the Dark Star trilogy, ...

Unlike so many fantasy novels, Black Leopard, Red Wolf isn’t a tale of swords, dragons or wizards. A refreshing entry into a genre that has been overfed by the myths of Western and Northern ...

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 and professor at ...

Black Leopard, Red Wolf 620 pages Riverhead Books. They call him Tracker, a “hunter known by no other name” who, for the right price, will find anyone you need found.

“Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” the first spectacular volume of a planned trilogy, rises up from the mists of time, glistening like viscera. James has spun an African fantasy as vibrant, ...