What gives Harry Potter such sales magic? And just how good are the books? Sam Leith investigates.
Rowling has neither the depth of a Pullman, nor the comic exuberance of a Roald Dahl, nor the mythological gravity of a C S Lewis. Not by a long chalk. But - as the astonishing success of her books shows - she has something, and she has it in spades. We can call it, for want of a better word, magic.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
