One Eternal Day

When Tolkien's memorial is placed in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey next year, it will be near that of C.S. Lewis. "[H]...

Those of us who value The Narnia Chronicles have already read enough to be dubious about Netflix's upcoming 2027 version of The Magicia...

Anyone who has visited my apartment would suspect that I am something of an Anglophile. They would be right. On the walls, they would find p...

Last year I posted about two books I wanted to read that were to be published in 2026. One of them, Michael Dirda's  The Great Age of St...

I have begun to re-read the Narnia books, beginning, of course with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , not, as the current collections...

From CrimeReads , Jeffrey Archer selects the "the ten novels [he] return[s] to from before 1980," excluding Agatha Christie (who g...

Wise counsel  from a work of fiction: ...Tolkien’s assessment of history isn’t just the musings of some dour and curmudgeonly professor. His...

The New Criterion has published an excerpt from Theodore Dalrymple's soon-to-be-published book about Agatha Christie. I always enjoy re...

I have commented before about historical novels I have enjoyed. I dislike those that take liberties with what is actually known about real p...

In the third book of his science fiction trilogy, C.S, Lewis converted his thesis from The Abolition of Man into a novel: In 1945, C.S. Le...

From a review of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson : Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company...

From "88 Years of Middle-Earth, 75 Years of Narnia" : During the hectic middle decades of the twentieth century, from the end of t...

Joseph Loconte on one of the reasons Tolkien and Lewis remain relevant beyond just entertainment: .... Tolkien and Lewis made a literary pa...

Robinson Crusoe is, of course, a classic work of fiction. Few, I suspect, think of it as a work of Christian fiction. The illustration is b...

Once again this summer, The Telegraph offered "The best children’s books for every age group." It's a pretty good list. A fe...

Although published more than three years ago, I only came across it yesterday while searching for something else. Buchan is one of my favori...

Dirda has reappeared at The Washington Post with "What are the best adventure novels?" including a list of books that he would c...

I did enjoy his novels, especially  Day of the Jackal and Dogs of War (both made into excellent films). He also narrated the BBC series S...

I'm not sure when I first discovered Elmore Leonard, but it was after the time he was writing Westerns (but I do have DVDs of some films...

Occasioned by a new release of Richard Lester's Three Musketeers comes a review of a film I thoroughly enjoyed in a theater when it wa...