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  1. overnights
    House of the Dragon Season-Finale Recap: Family MattersThis was a very good episode of TV and a terrible season finale.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    House of the Dragon Recap: An Army of BastardsDid the bastard massacre in the dragon pit remind anyone else of Jurassic Park?
    By Amanda Whiting
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    House of the Dragon Recap: Just MeatTo more dragons! The cause of, and solution to, all Targaryen problems.
    By Amanda Whiting
  4. profile
    Lev Grossman Takes His TimeThe author of The Magicians returns to adult fiction with The Bright Sword. It only took ten years and a transpacific move.
    By Choire Sicha
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    House of the Dragon Recap: You Win or You DieWe begged for a dragon fight all season. We just had to see dragons fighting.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    House of the Dragon Recap: Forgotten HistoryRhaenyra won’t be able to avoid war for much longer.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    House of the Dragon Recap: Brothers In ArmsHave you seen anyone fail upward as spectacularly as Ser Criston Cole?
    By Amanda Whiting
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    House of the Dragon Season-Premiere Recap: Rat RaceWell, it looks like peace won’t be an option, thanks to Daemon.
    By Amanda Whiting
  9. game review
    The Platonic Ideal of Fantasy AdventureDragon’s Dogma 2 delivers a quirky, evocative open world straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel.
    By Lewis Gordon
  10. movie review
    Netflix’s Damsel Is Sweaty, Snarly, Slithery FunMillie Bobby Brown might have the lead role in the new fantasy thriller, but the dragon steals the show.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  11. books
    Sarah J. Maas Is the Mortal Queen of Faerie SmutHer massively popular series, including “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance — and a whole lot of trauma.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  12. vulture guides
    12 Romantasy Authors to KnowHere are some of the most popular creators of sexy fantasy worlds.
    By Julie Kosin and Kathryn VanArendonk
  13. book review
    In Alex Pheby’s Novel Malarkoi, God Is Dead and Objects Are AliveThe second book in Alex Pheby’s trilogy Cities of the Weft spins fantasy tropes in strange and visceral new dimensions.
    By Emma Alpern
  14. exit interview
    Reinventing the Wheel of TimeFor the series’ breakout second season, showrunner Rafe Judkins followed a different kind of fantasy.
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Recap: Rand and DeliverWith an electric season finale, Wheel’s approach to epic fantasy has reached must-watch television.
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Recap: The Great EscapeJust as our hero starts to come into his own, we get a shocking twist that is a genuine bummer.
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Recap: Master and ServantEgwene’s breaking is the most disturbing moment in the series to date.
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Recap: Are You Afraid of the Dark?We’re benefiting from seeing our characters develop more, but we have to suffer through these lifeless night scenes.
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Recap: Blood SimpleWheel seems to have taken a leap in its second season. Here’s hoping it keeps up!
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Recap: Level UpWhoa. Where did this show come from?
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Recap: Rand on the RunWe’re digging into interesting relationship dynamics with new and familiar faces.
    By Sean T. Collins
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    The Wheel of Time Season-Premiere Recap: Roll OnAmazon’s big-budgeted series may not be remarkable, but it knows to deliver all the hits of fantasy that fantasy nerds want.
    By Sean T. Collins
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    Outlander Recap: Reality BitesTime travel becomes a major buzzkill when you’re aware a whole lot of people are going to die.
    By Maggie Fremont
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    Good Omens Season-Finale Recap: Something’s Getting CloserThe Good Omens finale suffers from a little Marvel-itis.
    By Bethy Squires
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    Good Omens Recap: Ferocity and DangerosityEverybody is having very big feelings at the Wickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association Monthly Meeting.
    By Bethy Squires
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    Good Omens Recap: It’s Blitz!Here’s to shades of gray.
    By Bethy Squires
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    Good Omens Recap: We’re Going to Edinburgh!Angels really have no undercover skills, do they?
    By Bethy Squires
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    Good Omens Recap: You Can’t Tempt an AngelSeeing the beginning of Aziraphale and Crowley’s “arrangement” is bittersweet.
    By Bethy Squires
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    The Witcher Season-Finale Recap: To Be ContinuedHenry Cavill may be done on The Witcher, but Geralt of Rivia isn’t going anywhere.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher Recap: The Last UnicornAs Henry Cavill’s Geralt nears his end, Ciri is becoming the main character now.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher Midseason-Premiere Recap: Fire & BloodWe’ve never seen a fight go this badly for Geralt.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher Midseason-Finale Recap: Having a BallThe reveals in the midseason finale would be more fun if they weren’t blatantly obvious.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher Recap: Having a BallIs The Witcher building up to its very own Red Wedding?
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher Recap: Are You My Mother?Like any parent of a gifted teenager trying to get into an elite academy, Yennefer will do anything to land Ciri a spot at her alma mater.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher Recap: Castle FreakA reminder that The Witcher can confidently shift back into Hercules: The Legendary Journeys–style storytelling whenever it likes.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher Season-Premiere Recap: On the Road AgainThe Witcher keeps insisting on making its world bigger, but it never seems to get any deeper.
    By Scott Meslow
  37. movie review
    The Key to Taking the D&D Movie Seriously Is Not to Take It SeriouslyDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves honors the classic game by acknowledging its ridiculousness.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  38. plot twists
    An Exhaustive List of Shadow and Bone’s Biggest Season-Two RevealsHow many secret identities, plot twists, and surprising emotional character turns can fit into eight episodes? A lot!
    By Maggie Fremont
  39. profile
    The Fabulist in the WoodsIn Northampton with Kelly Link and her community of like-minded writers.
    By Lila Shapiro
  40. overnights
    Mayfair Witches Season-Finale Recap: Meet Me at the Witching HourYou almost have to respect Mayfair Witches’ dedication to absolute nonsense until the very end.
    By Kathleen Walsh
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    Mayfair Witches Recap: The Rube Goldberg Machine Comes TogetherRowan is kind of the worst.
    By Kathleen Walsh
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    The Legend of Vox Machina Season-Finale Recap: Up Umbrasyl’s BumbasylTLOVM ends its sophomore season on a somewhat unsatisfactory note despite some remarkable highlights and a trip into a dragon’s rectum.
    By James Grebey
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    Mayfair Witches Recap: Gaslight, Gatekeep, GirlbossSorry, but it’s impossible to take Rowan fighting off Lasher’s influence seriously when she’s dressed in a polyester flapper costume.
    By Kathleen Walsh
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    The Legend of Vox Machina Recap: Actually, Split the PartyThe Legend of Vox Machina continues to smartly deviate from what happened in Critical Role.
    By James Grebey
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    The Legend of Vox Machina Recap: Epic Quests and Poop AccompanimentNothing like a black dragon to mess up your quest-completion win streak.
    By James Grebey
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    His Dark Materials Series-Finale Recap: Every Atom of Me and Every Atom of YouGod is dead, but Eve’s sorrow is still greatly multiplied.
    By Devon Maloney
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    His Dark Materials Recap: A Cesspit of Moral FilthMrs. Coulter’s swan song is elevated despite some weird setbacks.
    By Devon Maloney
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    The Witcher: Blood Origin Finale Recap: You Say You Want a RevolutionWhile this miniseries wasn’t exactly a riveting page-turner, it opens plenty of possibilities for the next story in the Witcher-verse.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher: Blood Origin Recap: I Live, I Die, I Live AgainSpending time with these characters goofing off is what Blood Origin needed all along.
    By Scott Meslow
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    The Witcher: Blood Origin Recap: The Empire Strikes BackBlood Origin is trying to speed-run through two different shows at once.
    By Scott Meslow
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