In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

Originally published as four shorter novels between 1938 and 1940, then collected and slightly amended, T. H. White's The Once and Future King is loosely based on Le Morte d'Arthur, the 15th ...

Books discussed: - Stormlight ... 0:00 Caveats 3:05 The Cosmere 5:16 His Dark Materials 6:31 Earthsea 8:58 Beowulf 10:38 Tigana 12:48 The Once and Future King 14:14 Piranesi 15:01 ...

In T. H. White’s series of novels The Once and Future King, the wizard Merlyn turns the young Arthur, future king of England, into a variety of animals. As a small fish, Arthur swims in a moat ...