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That Hideous Strength: Once more into the breach
This was at least my third reading of C.S. Lewis’s culminating space trilogy novel. I reviewed one reread a few years ago here. What makes this reading unique is that it occurs on…
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Perelandra
It has been a good many years since I read C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra. Recently I reread the first book of this author’s space trilogy, so it seemed natural to attempt a reread of…
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The Fellowship
What then, were the Inklings? Was John Wain right to call them (as we reported on the first page of this study) ‘a circle of instigators, almost of incendiaries, meeting to urge one…
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C.S. Lewis and Bottoming Out
It seems to us that he went from being a formidable atheist to a formidable Christian right away, but he didn’t. There really are about ten years that we really don’t know very…
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Rereading Narnia
We’ve been listening once again to Kenneth Branagh’s impeccable reading of Lewis’s Magician’s Nephew. I have always loved this book; it was the first of the Narnia series that I read as a…
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A Love Observed
Now 14 years old, this book doesn’t represent cutting edge scholarship on the marriage between Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis. I saw it on the shelf at the library, and as a perpetual…
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Narnia Cover Art
Along with the many reflections on JFK today are a number of tributes to C.S. Lewis to commemorate the anniversary of his death. I liked this photo essay presenting the different book covers…
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On Stories and Other Essays on Literature
For those interested in a thought-provoking journey into a writer’s mind, this collection of C.S. Lewis’s literary essays contains some gems. Aside from the title essay, which I wrote about a few weeks…
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On Stories — C.S. Lewis
I’ve been thinking about the title essay of this collection. In it, C.S. Lewis ponders what we’re really after in our reading, and takes issue with the notion that there is a certain…
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The Discarded Image
Have you ever wanted to escape your time? Most of us read at least partly to do just that. But our efforts are limited by something we can’t easily escape: our own minds,…