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...novel opens in 1895 in a London museum, where young Philip Warren, an aspiring potter, is sketching the metalwork and camping out secretly amid the statuary. On the lam from a bleak working-class future in England's industrial north, Philip has the good fortune to be discovered by two sympathetic boys, one of whom is the son of children's-book author Olive Wellwood. Soon our ceramist is apprenticed to Wellwood family friend Benedict Fludd, a master potter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Grimm: A.S. Byatt's Latest Novel | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...find and every book about them that's been written" and ferreting out their weak spots. In Clough's case, he didn't have to look hard. For all his braggadocio, Clough wore his vulnerability on his sleeve. (See pictures of the great British thespians of Harry Potter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Sheen Scores in The Damned United | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...TIME's photo-essay "Growing Up with Harry Potter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Wild Things Are: Sendak with Sensitivity | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

There are two pairs of twins in your book. Is there a reason that twins, in pop culture at least, are inherently creepy? Other than the Weasley boys in the Harry Potter series, you never really see twins portrayed in a happy way. I suppose one source of unease is this notion that you're not as unique as you think you are. And identical twins, of course, personify that. We don't like that. Or maybe we're drawn to it and repelled by it at the same time. Of course, I imagine a twin would look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...hasn't told their friends back home that their dining hall looks like the "Great Hall"? Back in 2008, Harvard Square was temporarily renamed "Hogwarts Square," when Rowling was invited as Class Day speaker. And as FlyBy understands it, far more college essays are actually about Harry Potter than Dostoyevsky or Proust...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: So We Didn't Get Hermione...but We Still Got Quidditch? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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