Daniel Yadin Daniel Yadin is a writer, reporter, and bartender in New York. He is an associate poetry editor at Asymptote.

Escape Artists | Romantasy at the End of the World

Daniel Yadin

The women’s names glow like eyes in the dark, staring out at us from the ruins of myth. Feyre Archeron, Celaena Sardothien, Violet Sorrengail, Galadriel Higgins, Phèdre nó Delaunay. Penellaphe “Poppy” Da’Neer, née Balfour, of Castle Teerman. Oraya, plain and simple, like Rihanna or Madonna. These are heroic appellations drawing on a range of Irish, French, Norse, Welsh, Latin, Arthurian, Hellenic, Hebraic, and American influences, all vaguely sounding, with their...