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Owen Barfield, British philosopher and close friend of C. S. Lewis, said once that Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry , his...

Poetry, like other forms of creative writing, is fiction, in the sense that it is ‘made up’: the poet puts words together not for any...

Between the end of the 1950s and 1970, a creative explosion took place in comics. As has been previously discussed, Stan Lee, becoming...

It’s part of the legend of the composition of the poem ‘Kubla Khan’ that it arose out of drug-induced reverie. Poet Samuel Taylor...

Detective stories are amongst the most popular genre of tale in the modern age, and it’s not hard to see why. Set in a recognisably...

I lived for some years on Highgate Hill in North London. A small statue of a black cat, protected from passers-by by a cage, supposedly...

Think of readers as your employers for a moment.   They have a job that they need doing. They’ve (potentially) turned to you to do it.  ...

As discussed in an earlier blog entry , C. S. Lewis’s last book, The Discarded Image , introduces modern readers to the now-largely-lost...

’Initially, Watchmen  gained a lot of its readership because it was taking an unusual look at superheroes, but actually it was more about...