Inside the wardrobe
New Yorker writer Alan Gopnik uses the occasion of two relatively recent biographies of C.S. Lewis to discuss the author and Christian apologist’s reputation in the U.S. and U.K. The essay is also timed to give readers plenty to think about before the much anticipated release of the first of the Narnia films this Christmas season. Gopnik discusses Lewis’s harrowing experiences in the First World War, his even more harrowing experiences at a sadistic British boarding school, and his strange conversion to Chrisitianity after an all-night discussion with fellow Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien, and how all of these events influenced the Narnia series and Lewis’s unique take on religion and mythology.
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Read Adam Gopnik’s essay in The New Yorker
