The Annotated Peter Pan

Peter Pan ranks high in the pantheon of universally embraced literary icons -- like Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes -- worthy of a sprightly new study such as we have here. This informative volume, replete with ancillary materials including screenplays from film adaptations, four-color photographs, and illustrations by iconic artists, finds Harvard scholar Maria Tatar illuminating the genesis and career of the original lost boy.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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