Every year, we take a moment to acknowledge the birthday of C.S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis), a man whose influence spans from the hallowed halls of Oxford to the imaginative realms of Narnia. His ...

Few writers shaped modern fantasy like C. S. Lewis, whose gift for turning common experiences into mythic narratives still defines the genre’s emotional depth. C. S. Lewis’ birthday on November 29 is ...

Some time ago, during an interview, I was asked to encapsulate, in a solitary word, the genius of C. S. Lewis. After a moment’s thought, I gave my answer. “Clarity,” I said. “The one word that ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It is structured on a simplified Freudian model, unpretentious and sensitively handled, which attaches great ...

As the famous British author once said, crediting people with things they never said says something about us. Howard and Lash’s summary of Lewis’s thinking and Warren’s rephrasing has become one of ...

Most fans of The Chronicles of Narnia are familiar with the same starting point. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was the original book in the series and the first movie adapted in the 2000s ...

A still from the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, featuring (left to right) Anna Popplewell, William Moseley and Georgie Henley as Susan, Peter and Lucy Pevensie Disney ...