Catherine Lloyd, Copy Editor, delves into why The Golden Compass didn’t fulfil the promise it had upon release.
Philip Pullman
Killing God – ‘His Dark Materials’ and ‘The Book of Dust’
Children’s fiction? Perhaps. Yet in few kids’ books that I’ve read do the protagonists attempt to kill God. Published a year after children began to disapparate into the world of Harry Potter, His Dark Materials offered a complicated, occasionally horrifying alternative to wands and wizardry. There was still magic- even witches- but the multi-worlds of […]
From page to picture
Until recently, I didn’t have a clue as to what to write my dissertation on. I made several panicked trips down the English Department corridor in Queens, scrawling my name on sign-up sheets as I went. I then received a valuable piece of advice: “pick a text you’re so passionate about, you’ll still be willing to […]