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The Harry Potter series has attracted a lot of media attention. This category is for media articles relating to the books.

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Besotted With Potter William Safire New York Times essay on why he thinks J. K. Rowling not winning a top literary prize was the right thing. Registration required. www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/safire/012700safi.html

Wild about Harry Review of Harry Potter vol. 3 by Linda Richards, editor of January Magazine. www.januarymagazine.com/kidsbooks/harrypotter.html

Harry's Real Magic Review of Harry Potter vol. 4 by Linda Richards, editor of January Magazine. www.januarymagazine.com/kidsbooks/harry4.html

Is Harry Potter Evil? Judy Blume article on Harry Potter. www.ncac.org/cen_news/cn76harrypotter.html

Funny, moving and impressive ... Review of Harry Potter vol. 1 by Michael Winerip (New York Times). www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/14/reviews/990214.14childrt.html

Lord of the Golden Snitch Review of Harry Potter vol. 3 by Gregory Maguire (New York Times). www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/05/reviews/990905.05maguirt.html

An Improbable Sequel: Harry Potter and the Ivory Tower NY Times article (requires registration) on International Congress on Medieval Studies, where "the persistence of medieval archetypes in popular culture" was discussed - in works by J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien www.nytimes.com/2001/05/12/arts/12MIDD.html

All Aboard the Potter Express Alan Cowell's New York Times article about J.K. Rowling's real life trip across Britain on the Hogwarts Express. www.nytimes.com/library/books/071000rowling-interview.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone The first Harry Potter book reviewed by Danny Yee. dannyreviews.com/h/Harry_Potter.html

Why 'Harry Potter' did a Harry Houdini Richard Corliss's CNN.com article on changes to the New York Times best-seller list due to the Harry Potter phenomenon. www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/07/21/potter7_21.a.tm

Harry Potter Hanky-Panky Book publishers' furtive change of a key detail in "The Goblet of Fire" has fans buzzing. www.cnn.com/2001/books/news/01/12/salon.potter

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling Review by Kristyn Starr at nabou.com. bookreviews.nabou.com/reviews/harry_potter_book_1.html

Spellbinding Textbooks Linda Richards reviews the two booklets written for the benefit of Comic Relief, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Quidditch Through the Ages": "both books [...] serve to illustrate quite graphically why [Rowling's] Harry Potter series of boo www.januarymagazine.com/kidsbooks/rowlingcomicrelief.html

Harry Potter: J.K. Rowling Interview Video @ Hollywood.com Hear what J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has to say about the big screen adaptation of her beloved story. www.hollywood.com/multimedia/detail/media/1097690

Salon.com Harry Potter Articles Salon Magazine article archive for Harry Potter related stories. dir.salon.com/topics/harry_potter

'Potter' Web fans organize boycott USA Today article about the reaction to lawyers trying to shut down Harry Potter fan sites. www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-02-22-potter.htm

Harry Potter Fans Detect Devilish Discrepancy Garth Johnston's Salon Magazine article on possible discrepancies in the Harry Potter series. dir.salon.com/books/log/2000/07/24/potter/index.html

The Sorcerers' Apprentice Where did Harry learn his trade? Giles Foden gives a short history of wizards in literature. From The Guardian. www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4035464,00.html

A Wizard of Hollywood Salon interview with Steve Cloves, screenwriter of the new Harry Potter movie. dir.salon.com/ent/col/srag/2000/02/24/kloves/index.html

Harry Potter Banned from Paper's Bestseller List Guardian Unlimited article on why Harry Potter books are not included in the Sunday Times bestseller list. www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3884000,00.html

Second time's still a charm USA Today review of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Cathy Hainer. www.usatoday.com/life/books/2001-07-17-sorcerers-stone.htm

And Alice Played a Video Game A study of the relationship between children's fantasy adventure stories and interactive computer games of American McGee's Alice and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. www.english-literature.org/essays/alice_video.html

Guardian Books Special Reports: Harry Potter Archive of news, comments, interviews, and audio clips related to the author and the books. books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter

Harry Potter, the Closet Wizard Recycled in Slate: In South Carolina, the state board of education is considering whether the popular Harry Potter children's books should be banned from school libraries because of their upbeat depiction of witchcraft, wizardry, and other dark arts. slate.msn.com/id/37736