Given the round-robin of writers and directors who fashioned it, The Wizard of Oz seems attributable to Chance, Fate, Divine Intervention or the Collective Unconscious. And yet, magically, apparently, this happenstance masterpiece remains among Hollywood’s most beloved for its famous heights and depths. To hear Salman Rushdie tell it, though, the heights are all that count.
In this essay, Andy Barnes writes about his experience reading Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, while visiting the Philippines, and considers Pullman’s descriptions of the atomization of both body and soul, in the context of Manila’s slums.
In this essay, Andy Barnes writes about his experience reading Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, while visiting the Philippines, and considers Pullman’s descriptions of the atomization of both body and soul, in the context of Manila’s slums.