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This is a review of the book Harry Potter and the Other; Race, Justice and Difference in the Wizarding World edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. of MacDonald's more unorthodox beliefs and how they actually fit into traditional interpretations of Christianity rather than being outlandish or sui generis, as is sometimes said about MacDonald's ideas. Moreover, this work demonstrates how MacDonald was both a visionary and also a man of his times, a voice of hope in a world that had gone dark, a reassuring presence in a world that seemed destined for chaos. --James Hamby, Harry Potter and the Other; Race, Justice and Difference in the Wizarding World, edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Open at the Close: Literary Essays on [...]

MEDIEVALISM IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE AND GAME OF THRONES. By Shiloh Carroll. D.S. Brewer, 2018. 192 p. ISBN 978-1843844846. $33.67. $20.99 Kindle format. 'This book explores Martin's [...]

GAME OF THRONES VERSUS HISTORY: WRITTEN IN BLOOD. Brian Pavlac. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. ISBN 978-1119249422. $18.95. Kindle $7.99. IN 2016 an exercise in career development placed me on the review panel [...]

The article explores dwarfs as representation of the elements of grotesque realism in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire." Topics discussed are aspects of violence or degradation as preconditions for recovery and healing, apex of Targaryen power and artificiality of hierarchies, instances of Clutean thinning such as Rhaenyra's capture of the King's Landing, and pattern of death and rebirth implied by Bakhtinian grotesquery.