If Narnia’s So Religious, How Come You Can’t Find Any Churches There?

A couple of weeks ago I complained about the lack of depth, metaphysical depth particularly, in the Harry Potter books and in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. Both novels let us down in that regard, because both deal with magic, the supernatural, and environments where people ought to be preoccupied with The Way Things […]

Potter versus Pullman: Where Can You Really Find Magic?

Imagine you woke up in a world where you could, with a simple phrase, make a glass partition protecting your evil cousin from a giant python disappear. And shortly after, you discover that there’s a whole community of people just like you who are desperately trying to get in touch with you because you’re their […]