When reality gets too heavy to bear, I sometimes like to shake off the dust of this mundane world and run headlong into the realm of fantasy. Sadly, fantasy worlds aren’t as easy to get to as isekai ...

Showalter adds, ‘It is Cather’s vision of the wasteland, the nightmare landscape of failed quest, like Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”.’ In one neat sentence we are given ...