Surrounded by art depicting vibrant landscapes and black bodies, Marlon James discussed his latest novel, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” with writer Roxane Gay at the Museum of African American Art in ...

Within the first 15 pages of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the narrator, Tracker, visits a dead king in an alternate realm to drag him back to the living; sleeps with an elderly woman he finds sitting by a ...

If there’s a person you want to talk to in the midst of a pandemic, it’s probably a writer of speculative fiction — someone whose imagination is as wild and gnarly as the wild and gnarly times. Marlon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Europe, ...

"Black Leopard, Red Wolf" by Marlon James is a serpentine, epic tale set in a fantastic realm of evil monsters and villains and flawed heroes. At its center is a quest for a boy, a child whom we know ...