Have our Hogwarts letters finally arrived? Well, this surely comes close. With the end of the “Harry Potter” film franchise nearing, legions of fans of the bestselling series have been lamenting the inevitable end of this worldwide phenomenon.
There’s no doubt about it—Harry Potter is merchandising gold. Practically everything you see in the movie and read in the...
It was the perfect end to a childhood obsession. It was Christmas in 1999 when Tata Enerio’s parents gave her...
The story behind the story itself has a bit of magic to it. It’s been retold many times in many...
To take a leaf out of Hermione Granger’s book, it is best to familiarize yourself with the history, language, and social practices of a world different from yours before even entering it.
Forgive me, J.K., for I have sinned. I’ve been a believer in the magic of Harry Potter since I first read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in fifth grade.
British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy."
For more than 10 years, all she had known was magic. Since 1997, J.K. Rowling has made money appear out of thin air—making herself wealthier than the Queen of England at one point—and famous worldwide by conjuring from her “riddikulus” imagination the boy wizard Harry Potter through seven books that also turned young-adult fiction into a publishing creature of mythical stature.
Just the mention of her name, J.K. Rowling, had the audience screaming and on its feet.
Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K. Rowling, Dickens and Dostoyevsky.
