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The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Han, ...

When most people think of fantasy, they picture sprawling wars, fire-breathing dragons, and quests for crowns. But another branch of the genre has been quietly flourishing: lyrical fantasy. These are ...