The magical boarding school novel forms a robust subgenre of children’s and young adult fantasy literature. Harry Potter learns he’s a legacy student at Hogwarts; Percy Jackson is spirited off to a training ground for demigods; Lissa and Rose get dragged back to St. Vladimir’s, the vampire academy. This, despite the fact that the boarding […]
In the same spirit, author Jeannette Ng (Under the Pendulum Sun), whose story “How the Tree of Wishes Gained its Carapace of Plastic” appears in the collection, joins us to highlight other authors and stories that have sought to examine “classics” of Western literature. The classics cast long shadows, having been canonized in our culture […]
It’s that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the leaves are starting to change, and parents are rejoicing as their children finally return to the classroom. Yes, it’s back to school season, the time of the year when I want to do drown myself in No. 2 pencils and unsullied spiral notebooks (filled only with potential!), despite the […]
