“You’re a wizard, Harry.” As a bibliophile and a parent, you’re so eager for the day your kid is ready to read those words and enter the wizarding world of Harry Potter. But along with fanciful components like letter-delivering owls, chocolate frogs, a hidden train platform, and an enchanted Sorting Hat, come darker elements, like […]
With books, movies, theme parks, and plays, it’s hard to imagine life before Harry Potter! The last 20 years have brought us so many unforgettable moments, and there are so many ways to enter the Harry Potter universe. Whether you’re looking for the perfect gift, want to introduce Harry Potter to a younger reader, or […]
It’s official: Lev Grossman’s fantastic book series The Magicians has inspired one of the best adaptations on television. The series based on Grossman’s books has managed the trickiest of all balancing acts, both honoring its source material and going beyond it in satisfying, intriguing ways. Grossman’s books are aggressively meta, a brilliant deconstruction of fantasy […]
The booksellers who handpick books for our Discover Great New Writers program were floored by Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists and Lucy Tan’s What We Were Promised—and still think about the places and people these novels conjured for us, months and months after we first read them. We were thrilled when Chloe and Lucy took the time […]
When I graduated from Literary Analysis Academy, the dean stopped the graduation ceremony and shook my hand. “You are so smart,” he said, “that we’ve decided you’re the only one who gets to graduate this year.” He said that right in front of my academic rival, who was always really mean, but also good at […]
