With the sequel, Moon Witch, Spider King, James once again shattered my expectations. As awed as I was by Tracker's story in the first book, Sogolon's tale makes this a rare sequel that is better ...

As if 2020 weren’t bad enough, we may now be in a fight with the Moon. According to a viral Twitter thread and numerous TikTok response videos, a group of TikTok witches hexed the Moon and ...

With “Moon Witch, Spider King,” Marlon James is that writer. In the second book of his Dark Star trilogy, James coaxes beauty from dark thoughts, leaving readers with a concaved, mystical and ...

Marlon James’s new novel, Moon Witch, Spider King, is the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, a fantastical adventure that draws inspiration from African mythology. In James’s often mordant ...

Marlon James’s “Moon Witch, Spider King,” the second book in his Dark Star trilogy, is both a continuation of the narrative that began with “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” in 2019 and an ...

The second book, this year’s Moon Witch, Spider King, revisits some of the same events from the perspective of Sogolon, the 177-year-old witch with a will of tempered steel who was both a member ...