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 ...

The worldwide cultural impact of C.S. Lewis during his own lifetime was phenomenal. This was evident in his being featured on the cover of Time Magazine in September 1947, an accolade which was only ...

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 ...

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