Harry Potter and the Many Faces of Motherhood
Harry Potter, both on screen and in the books, is also about the many iterations of motherhood, how it manifests, and the many ways in which it alters the world.
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The Ordinary Bookclub makes its Triumphant Return with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Yes, it’s fanfic. No, you won’t mind.
Mount Rushmore – Children’s Author Editions
Hey! Something I know about! Which means I’ll probably get twice as many hate-comments. Don’t worry… I haven’t yet realized my dream of turning the “Fast and Furious” movies into a series of pop-up...
Do Fantasy Books Really Need To Be As Long And Meandering As My Posts?
(Minor spoilers for the Harry Potter series and medium spoilers for the A Song of Ice and Fire series contained within.) In the wake of the death of Google Reader (which is only mostly...
My first piece in ‘The Atlantic’
Hey everyone…big shameless self-promotion for yours truly. I’ve published my first-ever piece in The Atlantic. It’s about fantasy literature and film. I ask whether we’re in a ‘fantasy bubble’. Take a gander, if you’re...
Mascots, justice, and the role of Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen
Warning: Spoilers Abound…. Alyssa Rosenberg has a really terrific post on Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen (the heroine of The Hunger Games trilogy) and how they both function as mascots rather than movement leaders...
Harry Potter and the Art of the Epilogue
I still haven’t seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Deux yet, but I hear the epilogue is poorly handled. I was sort of agnostic about it in the book. Epilogues are hard....
Harry Potter the Jock
I’m going to write a few posts about Harry Potter in anticipation of seeing the latest, and final, film. Amanda Marcotte has a smart observation about Harry Potter and his band of non-misfits: I...
Harry Potter and the Ministry of Magic
I’m going to write a few posts about Harry Potter in anticipation of seeing the latest, and final, film. Alyssa Rosenberg has a good list of the political lessons found in the Harry Potter...
