children's literature and culture has strayed from Christian ethics to a more pagan ideology where good and evil is not strongly defined. The book features O'Brien's examination of fantasy works ranging from C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern. One of the book's central claims is that any story in which dragons are presented sympathetically rather than as forces of evil is implicitly anti-Christian because of the traditional use of the dragon as a symbol for Satan. O'Brien has been critical of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, comparing it unfavourably with the work of J. R. R. Tolkien. O'Brien's non-fiction works include: The Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary (meditations and paintings, White Horse Press, 1992, Ignatius Press, 1994 )) A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind (Ignatius Press, 1994, ) Remembrance of the Future: Reflections on Our Times (Justin Press, 2009) Arriving Where We Started: Faith and Culture in the Postmodernist Age (Justin Press, 2011, , re-titled Father at Night) William Kurelek: Painter & Prophet (Justin Press, 2013 ) (with Matthew [Maté] Krajina) Donkey Dialogues (Justin Press, 2014, ) Stations of the Cross: Paintings and Meditations (Justin Press, 2018, The Apocalypse: Warning, Hope & Consolation (Wiseblood Books, 2018, ) The Family & the New Totalitarianism (essays, Divine Providence Press, 2019, ) (with Clemens Cavallin) The Art of Michael D. O'Brien (Ignatius Press, 2020, ) Publishers Much of O'Brien's non-fiction, and some of his fiction, has been published by Justin Press, a Catholic publishing house in Ottawa founded in 2009. The majority of his fiction, and some of his non-fiction, has been published by Ignatius Press, a Catholic publishing house founded in 1974 in San Francisco. Other books by O'Brien have been published by Wiseblood Books and one of its imprints, Divine Providence Press. References Further reading External links Interview at America: The Jesuit Review Interview at Catholic World Report Interview at The Jesuit Post Article at The Catholic Register 1948 births Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian male novelists Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Living people Roman Catholic writers Writers from Ottawa