"[2] In 1995, Miller helped to co-found the news website Salon.com,[1] and in 2000 she edited The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors with Adam Begley.
Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series, her enchantment with it as a child, and her disenchantment with it as an adult after realizing its heavy use of religious themes.
[6] Gary L. Tandy in Christianity and Literature called The Magician's Book "Laura Miller's unique and intriguing extended essay about her experience as a lifelong reader of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia."
He commented that the book is made interesting by the uneven course of her "love affair" with Lewis's writing; he notes that she admits she is not a Christian, despite her Catholic upbringing.
[7] John D. Riley, writing in Against the Grain, described Literary Wonderlands as both "a checklist and guide to essential utopian, dystopian and speculative fiction that you have always been meaning to read" and "a valuable scholarly look back at familiar books and a fresh look forward to more adventurous reading in the future."