Tag Archives: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Fools of April, with Best Wishes to Netflix, Taylor Swift, and Friends of Narnia

Posted on April 2, 2019 by

Yes, well, it was just a joke. Monday’s “EXCLUSIVE PILGRIM IN NARNIA RELEASE” was a total farce. I am not an academic consultant to the Netflix miniseries (though I hope someone is). As far as I know, pop sensation Taylor … Continue reading →

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And The Greatest of These…: A Review of C.S. Lewis’ Four Loves

Posted on February 28, 2019 by

This year I introduced an occasional feature I call “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own vault or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be … Continue reading →

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Girls, Boys, and the Maps in Their Heads: A Reflection on Narnia

Posted on January 24, 2019 by

I walk around with a map in my head. Or at least I try to. I have driven in Tokyo, Manhattan, Vancouver, Kobe, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, and–most terrifying of all–Wales. There were times in the wilds of Japan or BC … Continue reading →

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A Timeline for the Creation of Narnia

Posted on September 13, 2018 by

Yesterday I shared some Press Association news about a new C.S. Lewis letter that popped up in a Lewis Facebook discussion groups. It really is a neat letter and a great opportunity to see Lewis’ handwriting when he is writing … Continue reading →

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A New C.S. Lewis Letter with Details About Narnia

Posted on September 12, 2018 by

That’s right, Dominic Winter Auctioneers is putting a newly surfaced letter from C.S. Lewis on the auction block. It is a great artifact, as The Daily Mail reports, a generous and light bit of Narnian delight as Lewis answers some questions from schoolchildren … Continue reading →

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The Words C.S. Lewis Made Up: Jollification, Uglification, and the Miserific Vision

Posted on November 1, 2017 by

We all know C.S. Lewis as the Narnian, but behind the children’s work was his experience as a teacher of English literature, a writer about the history of literary movements, and a tinker in other forms of fiction. In that tinkering, … Continue reading →

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C.S. Lewis’ Philosophical Letters About Mice (for Susan Call Hutchison)

Posted on July 20, 2015 by

I posted on Monday about a cheeky poem that Lewis wrote about Talking Beasts. You can read about it here. One of our long-term readers here at A Pilgrim in Narnia, Susan Call Hutchison, responded by saying how she loved … Continue reading →

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