Dear Readers, Remember when you were a child and you would occasionally have dreams of walking into a room of yours and instead of finding a closet or a bedroom, it would instead be utterly filled with whatever your heart desired? I used to dream I had secret rooms like those that would change with
Arts and Culture
The League of Extraordinary Inklings?
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are deservedly well known for their fiction. Tolkien’s mythology is almost unparalleled in level of detail and The Lord of the Rings set the standard for fantasy literature, while Lewis’s novels have inspired countless readers. We are very familiar with them as writers, but what about as action heroes? This
Screwtape Comes to New York
Warning: the post you are about to read is a satiric message in the spirit of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. My dear Wormwood, Our Father Below has just notified me concerning a matter of positively grave concern. The American humans are currently producing a “theater adaptation” of our embarrassing correspondence that the infernal Oxford
How “Real” is “Fantasy” Art?
An interesting debate has started between two authors on the internet about the nature of Art and whether fantasy literature qualifies. The first article, fromThe New Atlantis, features an argument by James Bowman about the nature of realism and fantasy in art, and why he does not consider fantasy art — the genre of choice
C.S. Lewis College & The Arts
The following post is from Cole Matson, one of our Scholars-in-Residence at The Kilns. Taken with permission from his blog The Unicorn Triumphant, Cole’s post gives his reaction about the recent C.S. Lewis College announcement and his ideas on the relationship of the arts, Great Books, and Christianity at the future college. Thank you Cole