Harry Potter « The Hooded Utilitarian

Gay YA: Harry Potter, Twilight, and Nora Olsen’s Swans and Klons

Go buy Nora Olsen’s Swans and Klons right now, damn it.

Harry Potter, Race, and British Multiculturalism

The magically invisible diversity of Harry Potter.

Heirs of Slytherin in the Virginia State House

Eugenics from Potter to the Old Dominion.

February 6, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
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The Boy Who Never Should Have Been

Frame stories and why How To Train Your Dragon is better than that other children’s fantasy series.

January 23, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
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White: Not the New Black

Victoria Foyt’s Revealing Eden is unusually crass in its take on race, but its general methodology has a longstanding pedigree in sci-fi and fantasy.

Great Haircuts of Future Past: Stop Telling Me to Pay Attention to You, You Omnipotent Whiner

Writer Darko Macan starts off, first page, first issue, by presenting his hero as a distraction from a distraction from the main action.

August 1, 2009
By Noah Berlatsky
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I’ve been reading Twilight, which isn’t bad; I may do a review at some point next week. In poking around the Internets though, I found this quote from Stephen King: “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer [...]