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Review of a book that discusses the allure of "genre fiction" to readers. Specifically, they provide the "opportunity to wonder" and leave room for engagement with the audience.
"There’s something about the “materiality” of these effects that imbue the film with a kind of authenticity..." On the importance of setting and materiality in creating a realistic fictional world.
Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years.
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