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Ultimately, whether he intended the Silmarillion to function as a national epic for England, Britain, the Anglosphere, or the entire world does not really matter all that much. What matters is that he succeeded.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the best of the weekend section from 2023’s offerings in The Wild Hunt, including the most popular article of the year, Meg Elison’s “Barbie is the new Inanna.”
This is not a subtle film. This is like Game of Thrones without a hint of subtlety and stranger accents.
The British Museum has announced a new £50 million partnership with the oil company BP after an apparent break between the two institutions earlier this year.
Now a year’s worth of cinnamon, nutmeg, or black pepper, can be acquired for less than a day’s wages, brought halfway round the world in hours or days on a journey that once took months, fraught with danger. The world we live in is a miracle that’s killing us all, and we don’t think about either of those things enough.