There is something almost unreasonably magical about the Land of Oz. I don't mean that in a throwaway, greeting-card kind of way. I mean it specifically and literally: the world that L. Frank Baum built across fourteen novels is so richly imagined, so internally consistent, and so overflowing with invention that it genuinely defies easy … Continue reading Following the Yellow Brick Road: An Oz Series Retrospective
Oz Series
More Than Yellow Brick Roads
When L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, readers saw a delightful children's fantasy about a Kansas farm girl who finds herself in a magical land. What they didn't realize was that Baum had created one of the most sophisticated commentaries on American society ever disguised as a fairy tale. Through … Continue reading More Than Yellow Brick Roads
The Confusing Middle 