Half-wild Lyra from Northern Lights was the first female character who felt real to Jane Gleeson-White. Then she met Elena Ferrante’s ‘ferocious, filthy, quicksilver’ Lila, a more complex version.
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Authors sometimes put deeper meanings into their stories, but really, it’s the reader who decides.
Philip Pullman’s call for a boycott against the new 50p coin is just the latest Oxford comma controvery.
Behind the magical tale is a deep layer of linguistic meaning.
In his new book, Philip Pullman, once again tackles religion as an oppressive institution. On another level, he continues the quest for explaining human consciousness.
Both systems are dangerous in the wrong hands.
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Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
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