evan willis

7 min read 2023-03-05 03:51:12

Evan Willis- Strike Series Ranking

Continuing our series of Hogwarts Professor staff posts ranking the Strike books, I’ll be adding my thoughts to the mix. (After which, I will be

12 min read 2022-09-27 19:00:16

In my last post I went over the story of my read-through of Ink Black Heart. I focused on my claim that each of the Strike books has had its primary

8 min read 2022-09-16 18:00:43

Hours after it came out, I started on Ink Black Heart. I wanted to read it slowly so that I had adequate opportunity to test, theorize, and predict,

1 min read 2021-10-14 09:41:58

To get discussion started on The Christmas Pig, I thought I would post some thoughts, aligned with a few of our keys to interpretation, that I was

13 min read 2021-02-14 06:25:24

The centrality of Elizabethan imagery in Troubled Blood is hard to miss. The Faerie Queene epigraphs and structuring, already well documented on

5 min read 2020-09-24 00:14:35

On the thread to the post inviting reader discoveries of links between Troubled Blood and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Evan Willis

4 min read 2020-09-15 13:01:31

At last, 15 September has arrived! We should all have our copies of Troubled Blood in hand today or tonight for our first hurried reading of the 944

9 min read 2019-09-30 19:00:27

On Puns, Considered in Shakespeare According to Hermetic Principles “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man,” a line from

7 min read 2019-03-06 12:46:47

Many previous posts have traced some of the influence of Vladimir Nabokov on the works of J.K. Rowling. In an attempt to supplement those posts, I