The end of King Arthur? That’s where Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’ begins

The end of King Arthur? That’s where Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’ begins

In the new novel by 'The Magicians' author, Britain is leaderless. And the only ones left to carry on are a handful of knights – the 'dregs of the Round Table' – and a sorceress.

Book Review: The Knights of Camelot search for a new king in Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’

A rudderless nation, lost in uncertainty, searches for its next commander in chief. There’s an uneasy sense that the country’s glory days have passed, and that a monumental turn in history is coming — for good or for ill. How do you find a leader to unite such a fractured, polarized land? Such is the uneasy world of Arthurian England in “The Bright Sword,” the new novel by Lev Grossman. The tale begins with Collum, a poor orphan who escapes an …