27 December 2019

The Oxford and Cambridge Schools of British Fantasy

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From Slate’s interview with Maria Sachiko Cecire, professor at Bard and author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature...
24 December 2019

Life Lessons from the MGM Movie

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Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow is a short but not insubstantial riff on the MGM Wizard of Oz . The author, Peter Guzz...
18 December 2019

See What See You Yesterday Did There

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Stories of time travel with branching possibilities emphasize the results of characters’ choices even more than other types of stories. ...
27 November 2019

The Busytown Neighborhood in New-York

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Every December the New-York Historical Society lays out a big model train set to visit, and this year’s design celebrates the centenary of...
24 November 2019

Tom Lyle and the Robin Miniseries

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In 1986 Tom Lyle, an aspiring comic-book artist in his thirties, went to a comics convention in Philadelphia. There he met Chuck Dixon, a ...
15 November 2019

Breakdown

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Let’s imagine that Donald Trump paid millions of dollars—assuming he actually has that much money to spend—to officials of a foreign gover...
07 November 2019

The Real Legacy of He Walked by Night

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He Walked by Night didn’t influence The Third Man , but it definitely did influence American popular entertainment. To start with, it app...
06 November 2019

Going Deep for a Climactic Chase

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He Walked by Night is a 1948 police procedural that gets better as it goes along, largely because the original director, journeyman Alfre...
03 November 2019

Restorative Young Justice

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I was intrigued by the news that Brian Michael Bendis was reviving DC Comics’s original Young Justice team, featured from 1998 to 2003. I ...
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31 October 2019

The Deep Roots of Willow Cove

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Next summer will bring The Witches of Willow Cove , a new novel for tweens by Josh Roberts, one of my writing group colleagues. Here are s...