Sam Shepard: 'America is on its way out as a culture'. As his seminal 1980 play, True West, is revived in London, the influential playwright reflects on the diminishing global role of the US, and the deaths of his friends Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams. Laura Barton.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Released. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on July 8, 2000. The book attracted additional attention because of a pre-publication warning from J. K. Rowling that one of the characters would be murdered in the book.
For the 2002 film adaptation, see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling. It was first published in 1998. All page numbers refer to the hardcover, American edition published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. ISBN 0-439-06486-4.