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The late novelist’s final books are ambitious portraits of the Western world and the human soul.

In Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan has taken the meticulously researched seven-hundred-page book American Prometheus and rendered it into his best film yet.

An important new addition to Lewis studies explores the influence of the medievals on Lewis the writer. But Lewis the thinker was just as importantly an anti-modernist modern.

Promoting a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles

As usual, the 2022 books selection is quite eclectic, and something for almost every adventurous reader made the list.

She wondered why Julian of Norwich was thought to have been a nun when her writings contained no hints of the cloistered life

This week’s selection of books includes a satire on our times, a novel by C.S. Lewis, and a ...

When I was a young girl, my mother gifted me one Christmas with D’Aulaires’ “Book of Greek Myths.” ...

<p>"It’s the most prominent example of a type of book that fascinates me: The amateur/popular history of an entire field that’s largely beloved (or at least successful) <em>outside </em>of said field and widely loathed within it."</p>

As both a writer and a scholar, his work hearkened back to a “slow, contemplative, symphonic world.”