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...Rabbi Pollock was cautious, of course - likening an ancient religion to children's fiction may not be particularly prudent in a country that is home to more holy sites and razor wire than anywhere on earth...
...couple of days later, I called Rabbi Dr. Chaim Pollock, Dean of Foreign Students at the Michlalah Jerusalem College, whom I had read had also used the Harry Potter analogy. He seemed somewhat embarrassed that I was asking him about the topic. "Harry Potter is fiction," he said. He had never suggested that it spoke to the Jewish experience specifically. He had just defended its emphasis on good and evil back when a lot of religious leaders were denouncing the books as occult. "The following, I think I can tell you," he said, warming slightly to the topic. "Rowling...
...While Silver’s narrative is not particularly intriguing, her portrayal of life on the outskirts—in a marginalized family in an isolated town—is refreshing. These people and their lives are not so outlandish as to be only conceivable in the pages of fiction. It is not difficult to imagine Ares and Malcolm as two real boys in Southern California; perhaps the novel is best read as a reminder that there are alienated people in alienated places with stories worth hearing—even if that story isn’t particularly well narrated...
...emblematic example of my frequent defenses of television. Everything about it shouldn’t work. Besides being a television show—a television show that’s a remake of an old, bad television show—it’s also science fiction. Still, it has managed to be one of the best shows on television. Now before you start picturing me playing D&D in a fedora and a Hot Topic t-shirt, let me just say that I don’t really like science fiction as a rule. Growing...
Though Scanlan said he did not know the details of Mailer’s sex life, the English professor said any explicit description of the writer’s sexuality would shed light on Mailer’s fiction, which often directly explores...