Posts Tagged ‘J.K. Rowling’

A Story for Our Times

Film & Television
July 22, 2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II is such an overwhelmingly powerful experience, sweeping up emotions and senses in its tidal wave of sights and sounds, that it well-nigh defies critique of any kind.

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BREAKING NEWS: You Heard It Here First

Literature
October 2, 2009

Our most fearless and occasionally feckless contributing editor reports on an exciting cultural phenomenon.

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Same Old Story

Literature
January 9, 2009

It’s a very idiosyncratic thing, this compulsion to revisit a story so often in close succession. It isn’t systematic, it’s the impelling of magnetic force – a desire, almost a need, to imprint the very words into my mind, absorbing their content into heart and being.

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