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Why the bigotry of CS Lewis’s Narnia books shouldn’t disqualify their magic Seventy years on, Lewis’s enthralling world has been criticised by Philip Pullman et al. But should children be denied its charms? A scene from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Credit: Film Stills It’s impossible to exaggerate the impression the Narnia books made on me when I discovered them as a child. I adored them so much that when my mother suggested reading The Lion, The Witc...

Illustration by Pauline Baynes As someone who has been known to start series smack in the middle—with both books and television shows—I tend to be a bit agnostic on the question of “what order should I read/watch these in?” With three exceptions: Legends of Tomorrow, which everyone, without exception, should start in the second season, only tackling the first season much, much later after getting a chance to realize that these characters can actually be fun. Blackadder, which everyone, ...