Baum's

Long before Wicked gave a new twist to the story of Dorothy and the yellow brick road, there was William F Brown and Charlie Small's exuberant all-black, soul-inspired retelling of Frank Baum's original story.

This week's new theatre 2011

A third photograph shows a corner of Baum's office decorated to look like a row of foreclosed homes.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: 99 to 1: Five Pictures From the Wall Street Culture War RJ 2011

I pointed out that if people really wanted to see Baum's thoughts on the economy they should read The Emerald City of Oz, in which Uncle Henry's farm gets repossessed and Princess Ozma rules over a socialist monarchy.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Wendy Smith on Baum's Nine Lives: Dan Baum's extraordinary book reads more like fiction than journalism.

Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers 2009

The Wizard of OzThe 1939 film of L Frank Baum's book overshadows its source text completely.

How children's books escape the page 2011

He tied that long-past debate to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. That went over so well in the classroom, at least as compared to asking students to read William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, that Littlefield published his idea in an American Quarterly essay called "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism."

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

It's no dishonor to scripter Eric Shanower to point out that every single narrative detail that Ethan liked first appeared in L. Frank Baum's book.

"I like when Dorothy landed in Oz" 2009

On Wednesday I mentioned my recent article on the big plot problem in Baum's previous Oz book, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. That adventure puts Dorothy and her companions in terrible danger, then rescues them magically with no preparation.

The Road to Oz 2009

Some of the arguments for this interpretation use details found first in the MGM movie, released twenty years after Baum's death.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story.

Wicked by Gregory Maguire: Book summary 2010