Harry Potter

La fantasía romántica está apuntalando el mercado de la ficción. Gracias a una generación que creció leyendo sobre un niño mago.

By Alexandra Alter

Romantasy is propping up the fiction market. Thanks to a generation that grew up reading about a boy wizard.

By Alexandra Alter

After tens of thousands of auditions, three newcomers were selected to play the television show’s leading roles.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

John Lithgow will play the Hogwarts headmaster in the HBO show, with Paapa Essiedu filling the role of Severus Snape.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

The muted reaction to the Edinburgh Fringe show “TERF” suggests that when activists engage with potentially inflammatory art, offense can quickly vanish.

By Alex Marshall

The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent art school graduate from Britain who was working at a bookstore.

By John Yoon

The legislation expands protections and creates a new charge of “stirring up hatred.” Critics, including J.K. Rowling, said the law was “wide open to abuse.”

By Sopan Deb

Claire Dederer’s deft and searching book surfaces a “fan’s dilemma” over such figures as Vladimir Nabokov, Woody Allen, Willa Cather and Roman Polanski.

By Alexandra Jacobs

The author J.K. Rowling is expected to be an executive producer of the show, which will appear on Max, the streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

The video game generated $850 million in sales in two weeks. Online discussion before its release was largely about the “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling’s comments on transgender issues.

By Julia Jacobs