Brandon Sanderson, an immeasurable phenomenon of literary fantasy
The worldwide popularity of this prolific writer, known to some as the ‘21st century Tolkien,’ shows no sign of slowing down — and neither does he
Tom Sharpe: A Nazi father, beatings, sexual repression and a final idyll in Catalonia
A new biography of the British satirist explores the controversial and complex figure of the creator of ‘Wilt’ on the 10th anniversary of his death on the Costa Brava
How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ an oddball of contemporary television, became a classic
The fifth and final season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show is a masterpiece, a vaudeville of narrative possibilities that has always been a love letter to the friendship between two women
How the world has appropriated Anne Frank
The diarist’s father, Otto, was the first censor of her work and a graphic novel that alludes to her explicit anatomical descriptions has been banned in some Florida high schools
Terrifying animatronics, lost souls and pizza: The video game that’s become a hit with children
The franchise ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s,’ a low-budget survival horror title, has become a surprising favorite of the youngest players, even spawning a series of books and, later this year, a movie
The werewolf still walks among us
The anthropologist Roger Bartra examines the metamorphoses of the myth of the wild lycanthrope, a 4,000-year-old legend born to ‘identify the civilized’
Maria Alyokhina, a punk poet against Putin
The Russian activist, who fled to Iceland two weeks ago, has been defying the Russian leader since before she helped create Pussy Riot
Leader of Pussy Riot escapes Russia: ‘Putin doesn’t scare me. He’s a nobody’
Maria Alyokhina, famous for her punk band’s human rights activism, told EL PAÍS from somewhere in Iceland that the Russian president is a ‘sick maniac’ who has been abetted for too long by the West
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