Tag Archives: Harry Potter

Harry Potter, Brideshead Revisited and Jeremy Corbin

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The London papers are full of comments this week marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. In The Spectator, associate editor Toby Young looks at the political and cultural influences that contributed to J … Continue reading →

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Trump, Harry Potter, and Waugh

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Sonny Bunch writing in the Washington Post has noticed that opponents of Donald Trump seem to have become fixated on the literary world created by the Harry Potter novels. After Trump’s election: the Potternistas gnashed their teeth and rent their garments, … Continue reading →

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