Review by Christopher G. Nuttall An Academy for Liars Alexis Henderson Ever since Harry Potter reinvigorated the magic school genre, there have been a number of efforts to present a more adult take on the concept of an outsider going to a magic school and finding out that there was a place where they belonged…
Never Give Up: The Battle Is Not Yours… There are times when we feel as if nothing we attempt will ever succeed. We write books we feel God calls us to write…but they don’t sell. We vote for people we feel God has endorsed…but they don’t win. We pray for things we need desperately…
Monday the state permitted those “from-away” to hunt along with Mainers. Opening season for Mainers began Saturday, awfully spooking the deer who don’t know Halloween except in this form. Awful thing to do to them during the rut when they’d rather concentrate on something better and are so crazed. Or, maybe not crazed but more…
by S. Dorman Going home through Franconia Notch, my spouse and I watched the great Whites rising like an apparition glimpsed between darker mountainous slopes. This whiteness—befitting the name of the range—was rime ice, crusting bold surfaces, before disappearing a day or two later. Then we searched for the telltale contour of Agiocochook, as Native Abenakis…
Alan Snyder, whose works we have linked to here before, has a new book about the effect of C. S. Lewis on modern America. Here is his article talking about, specifically, the influence of Narnia: Narnia for Adults (and Other Maturing People) Dr Snyder February 8, 2020 Nearly every Wednesday evening since last September, I’ve been…
How best to go about telling a Bildungsroman for the son of Arathorn II, for a youth who would become the Good King Elessar? Achieving qualities Tolkien so carefully evoked in his great cosmology and Lord of the Rings stories, the landscape, map, and texts of Middle-earth provide answers, addressing formal and structural concerns…
Article by Professor Bruce G Charlton An Inklings meeting was the (usually) Thursday late-evening meeting in CS (‘Jack’) Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford; to read work in progress, criticize it, and have conversations arising from this. It is important to recognise that the focus of the Inklings was the writing of its members; even…
This article by Tom Simon is a sequel to Ozamataz and first appeared on Bondwine. So far, I have described my thoughts about ozamataz up to the point where I asked whether one could attract that kind of self-sustaining fan participation, and if so, how. This is also the point at which the Muse, or the Guardian Angel, or…