“Dune: Part Two,” like the books and adaptations that preceded it, show it’s nearly impossible to tell an anti-colonial story while centering the colonial hero’s perspective, heroism and general awesomeness, argues Noah Berlatsky.
Book publishers and industry watchers are taking note of the romantasy subgenre’s enormous popularity among young female readers author Sarah J. Maas alone has sold 40 million copies and the power of #BookTok to elevate both its well-known, traditionally published writers, and self-published indie authors alike.