Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint racked up a million followers in just over four hours. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2020-11-17 16:59:20 UTC ]
Actor has announced he will be exiting the Harry Potter prequel series after losing his libel case over allegations of assault towards ex-wife Amber HeardJohnny Depp is set to exit the Fantastic Beasts franchise after being asked to resign by Warner Bros.The actor announced the decision in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-06 16:53:04 UTC ]
Ella discovered Diagon Alley inside her wardrobe during a game of hide-and-seek on her birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2020-11-04 00:03:40 UTC ]
Actor Matthew McConaughey has the #1 book in the country with ‘Greenlights.’ Plus books on baking and escapist photography help ease the lockdown blues, and a new edition of ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ pops up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
After shaky start in lockdown, Bloomsbury sales soar as people pick books over box setsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Harry Potter publisher, Bloomsbury, has reported its most profitable first half in more than a decade, after a nation tiring of box sets fuelled... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-10-27 12:22:12 UTC ]
It smelled like Clinton’s emails redux. Last Wednesday, the Murdoch-owned New York Post published a bizarre story, sliming Joe Biden and his son Hunter, that it said was based on files (including, yes, emails) from a laptop that a man who may or may not have been Hunter left in a Delaware... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-10-19 12:20:19 UTC ]
SUSANNA CLARKE FIRST BURST on the scene with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in 2004 on a wave of publicity partly fueled by comparisons with Harry Potter. However, while both stories are set in England and concern magic, the similarities end there: Jonathan Strange presents a complex, dark,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-18 17:00:59 UTC ]
IN THE LATE 1990s and early 2000s, millennials in the United States were tweens and teens, and the Harry Potter phenomenon hit hard. There was nothing so comforting in the face of overseas wars and 9/11 as a bit of Blairite neoliberalism from abroad: the British school novel wrapped up with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-09-19 15:00:45 UTC ]
The long-rumored Harry Potter open-world game finally has a release date. Hogwarts Legacy will come out sometime in 2021. Sony shared a lengthy cinematic trailer during its PlayStation 5 showcase detailing what you’ll do the game. You’ll play as a wi... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2020-09-16 20:27:10 UTC ]
With books delayed by the pandemic reaching shops alongside other titles aimed at the Christmas market, the trade has seen sales boomBooksellers up and down the UK are reporting a boom in sales since readers returned to bookshops after the lockdown, with the first avalanche of Christmas titles... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-11 12:40:19 UTC ]
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says she is returning an award from a human rights group linked to the Kennedy family after the president of the organization criticized her comments about transgender issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2020-08-28 20:34:31 UTC ]
A poster supporting the Harry Potter author, paid for by an anti-trans activist, was removed from an Edinburgh train station for being too political. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-07-31 17:57:33 UTC ]
This week Dave Miller, who hosts a daily talk show on Oregon Public Broadcasting, interviewed “two very tired people”: Tuck Woodstock and Sergio Olmos, both independent journalists. Since late May, daily protests in solidarity with Black lives and against police brutality have taken place in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-07-24 12:18:51 UTC ]
The Day faced legal action from author after implying that her comments on gender harmed trans peopleA news website aimed at British schoolchildren has agreed to pay an unsubstantiated amount after it implied that JK Rowling’s comments on gender caused harm to trans people.The Day, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-23 16:33:19 UTC ]
Figures for last year show sales of £6.3bn, up 20% on 2015, but the Publishers Association says sector needs government support to weather coronavirusBook sales in the UK hit record levels in 2019, driven by a surge in audiobook and nonfiction titles, according to new figures released as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-21 23:01:08 UTC ]
Bloomsbury says books were a lockdown hit, with children’s division revenue up 27%The backlash against JK Rowling’s views on transgender law reform has failed to dent the popularity of the Harry Potter author’s books, with publisher Bloomsbury saying they have proved a lockdown hit, pushing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-21 12:29:43 UTC ]
Three mission-driven indie bookstores well-known for their commitment to social justice have ceased stocking books written by J.K. Rowling, accusing the Harry Potter author of promoting hatred towards transgender people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling's agency The Blair Partnership has lost four of its author clients over the controversy surrounding the Harry Potter author's views on transgender law reform. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 05:27:06 UTC ]
In order to create the Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List, we’ve ventured into unfamiliar territory and employed… math. | Lit Hub How JK Rowling betrayed the world she created: Gabrielle Bellot on growing up with the Harry Potter universe. | Lit Hub “The pace and frequency of Trump’s falsehoods... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-10 10:30:25 UTC ]
After the author’s widely criticized round of gender identity tweets over the weekend, the actor spoke up on behalf of transgender women. The creator of Harry Potter seems to have lost Harry Potter himself, as Daniel Radcliffe comes to the defense of trans women in the wake of J.K. Rowling’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-06-09 10:00:07 UTC ]