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Before He Kills Again

IT SEEMS AS IF HE HAS ALWAYS been part of the American cultural landscape, leaving dead bodies at hospital emergency-room doors, wearing Founding Father costumes to court, accusing his opponents of conducting a modern-day Inquisition. But only nine years ago, no one had heard of Jack Kevorkian, when a March 1990 newspaper article described an offer that seemed more like Read More ›

As Traffic Worsens, Economic Reality Could Take its Toll

Paul Heyne, senior lecturer in economics at the University of Washington, asks: When the population of an area grows, why is it that the roads get congested but the movie theaters don’t? His answer: Because you have to pay to see a movie. If people could walk in free, Heyne writes, “I would predict a growing problem of theater congestion.” Read More ›

Irish Centenary Group; From Idea to Reality

In the summer of 1994 a Franciscan Friar named Finbarr Flanagan returned from his post in South Africa to his native Belfast for a visit. He looked for C. S. Lewis memorials and found none. Resolving to light a candle rather than curse the darkness, he wrote a leaflet, “C. S. Lewis and Belfast,” noting the Centenary in 1998 and Read More ›

Lewis Legacy Readers Who Contributed To The C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia

D. Aeshliman has written for journals on both sides of the Atlantic and has taught at Columbia, The University of Virginia, and two Swiss universities. He is currently Docente in English at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano and Associate Professor of Education at Boston University. His book The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case Against Read More ›

“Narnia Born Again”

The Nation, 2 February 1999 BOSTON JOURNALIST Michael Gross attended Stanley Mattson’s Oxbridge C. S.. Lewis conference in 1998, then visited the Wade Center and wrote a 3,000-word article for the 2 February 1999 issue of The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/). He begins and ends in the Sheldonian Theatre. (See John Bremer’s “C. S. Lewis and the Ceremonies of Oxford University” in Read More ›

From a Humble Admirer

To a great lady IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY there is a copy of the 1950 edition of Dymer with the following inscription to a great poet and dear friend of Lewis on the flyleaf: Ruth Pitter from C. S. Lewis 16 / 10 / 50 Not for your reading, not because I dreamTo pay my debt for the still, ghostly Read More ›

New Light on Dark Tower, Wrong country; wrong decade

A new kind of evidence has recently come to our attention indicating that The Dark Tower was written by Walter Hooper rather than C. S. Lewis. On the fifth page of the first chapter, the character named Orfieu says to the character named Ransom, “When you get a mental picture of a little boy called Ransom in an English public Read More ›

K. Lindskoog: You Have Mail, A true Christmas story

WE WERE HAVING an extremely quiet Christmas day. Pete and Kathy were unable to fly cross country from New Jersey as hoped. Jon and Jen were heading for the beach in their RV for the weekend. (After a lifetime of Christmases with my mother, the most enthusiastic Christmas grandmother in the world, it was a good idea for Jon to Read More ›

The Delight of E-mail from Around the World

Two letters about Turkish Delight from Joshua Pong, an E-mail friend in Hong Kong: Turkish Delight! I have a buddy, a Chinese who shares with me a deep passion for hiking. We two have tramped the hills of Hong Kong I don’t know how many times over. Yet we still want to do it again during our holidays. He lectures Read More ›