The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film written and directed by Chris Weitz that is based on Philip Pullman’s 1995 novel Northern Lights. The plot follows Lyra, who joins a tribe of ...

This month marks 30 years since the arrival on U.S. shores of “The Golden Compass,” an award-winning British fantasy classic that's been published in dozens of countries. The book has spawned two ...

When readers first met her in The Golden Compass (first published in the U.K. in 1995 as Northern Lights), Lyra Belacqua was a young orphan, hiding in a wardrobe at Oxford’s Jordan College, spying on ...

It has been more than 25 years since the world was introduced to Lyra Belacqua. Lyra is the heroine of the "His Dark Materials" series, where she answers big questions with a seemingly magical golden ...