epics

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Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

By emulating epics like Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the live-action “House of David” opens its story to a much broader audience than most Christian content.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

The San Fernando Valley native is a brilliant director who has made sprawling, messy epics about imperfect people synonymous with his name, like John Ford with Westerns or A24 with art house flicks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

The play will be "a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen", and will reach the stage in early 2027, the announcement said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

King praised the students who had, as he put it, “fashioned...a creative protest that is destined to be one of the glowing epics of our time....”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson