[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, from Transept author Alicia Pollard, is an imaginative supposal on the order of C S Lewis’s The Great Divorce. It was inspired by works such as Lewis’s ‘The Turn of the Tide‘, John Milton’s ‘On the…
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a three-part review. Philip Ryken. The Messiah Comes to Middle Earth: Images of Christ’s Threefold Office in the Lord of the Rings. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2017, xiii +136pp., $16.00/ Over the…
Question: What do Daenerys Targaryen, The Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, and yourself—with fingers hovering idly over trackpad and eyes bouncing across lines of internet text—have in common? I answer: Enchantment. Both cultures are defined increasingly by perspectives…
Alissa Wilkinson and Robert Joustra. How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2016. 208 pages. Paperback $16.00. In How to Survive the Apocalypse, Robert Joustra and Alissa…
Melanie Keefe. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi+ 232pp. £16.99 hardcover. In her insightful and well-researched monograph, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain, Melanie…
C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos. Edited by Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe. 2013, 184 pp., Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 978-1-60635-183-3. Perelandra is not the first C.S. Lewis book for which his readers reach, yet Lewis himself considered it to be…
George MacDonald speaks of the true essence of a meaningful fairytale in his classic essay, “The Fantastic Imagination”: [A fairytale] cannot help having some meaning; if it have proportion and harmony it has vitality, and vitality is truth. The beauty…
Superheroes are often re-born in different incarnations. A writer will start the storyline afresh and a new version of the hero will be born. Neil Gaiman’s award-winning story Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (2009) coalesces previous Batman incarnations, focusing…
For many readers – H.G. Wells and Laurence Houseman, G.K. Chesterton and Noel Coward – for these and thousands more, the most magical stories of modern times are those by that Edwardian wizard E. Nesbit…To come upon any Nesbit today,…