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Erin McAuliffe | Thursday, December 1, 2016
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” begins with a scan of The Daily Prophet and articles that warn of a “dark wizard terror threat,” setting the film’s tone of fear mongering, bigotry and social unrest in a darkly detailed 1920s New York City that poignantly translates to today’s climate. The film is a continuation
Catherine Owers | Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Finding a copy of Tana French’s first novel on the bottom shelf of my library’s fiction collection was one of the best days of summer. So I’m eagerly anticipating the sixth book in her “Dublin Murder Squad” series, due out in November. Until then, I’ll have to content myself with other titles. For many
Keely Bergin | Wednesday, April 1, 2015
“The Casual Vacancy” by J.K. Rowling was released under a pen name in 2012 where it was greeted with minimal fanfare and was generally not well reviewed, even after she was revealed as the author. It was called “not only disappointing — it’s dull,” according to “The New York Times.” Rowling also released another book
Caelin Miltko | Thursday, February 12, 2015
If you have any interest in the book industry at all, you’ve probably heard that Harper Lee is publishing a new book. Yes, the great Harper Lee, perhaps the greatest “one-hit wonder” of the American literary canon, the almighty authoress of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” is publishing a “sequel,” 55 years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning