Book Reviews

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Amy Amendt-Raduege, ‘The Sweet and the Bitter’: Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Review by Lance A. Green

Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri, and Claudio A. Testi (eds), Tolkien and the Classics. Review by E.L. Risden

Gavin Ashenden, Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration. Review by Glen Cavaliero

Mark Atherton, There and Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit. Review by Trevor Hart

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Owen Barfield, Eager Spring. Review by Brendan N. Wolfe

Owen Barfield, Night Operation. Review by Brendan N. Wolfe

Gregory Bassham (ed.), C.S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con. Review by Norbert Feinendegen

Alan R. Blackstock, The Rhetoric of Redemption: Chesterton, Ethical Criticism, and the Common Man. Review by David Baird

Mark J. Boone and Kevin C. Neece (eds), Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man: Finding C.S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television. Review by Randall M. Jensen

Devin Brown, A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis. Review by Jeff Tirrell

Janice Brown, The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot. Review by Gary L. Tandy

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Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger (eds), Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration. Review by Faith Liu

Glen Cavaliero, Charles Williams: Poet of Theology. Review by Dimitri Phillips

Oronzo Cilli, Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist. Review by Bradford Lee Eden

David Clark, C.S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology. Review by P.H. Brazier

Denis J. Conlon, G.K. Chesterton: A Reappraisal. Review by Brett H. Speakman

Lisa Coutras, Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth. Review by Alison Milbank

Janet Brennan Croft (ed.), Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I. Review by I.A. Isherwood

Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan (eds), Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien. Review by Brooke Boriack

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Marsha Daigle-Williamson, Reflecting the Eternal: Dante’s Divine Comedy in the Novels of C.S. Lewis. Review by John Took

Joy Davidman, A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C.S. Lewis and Other Poems.

Kerry Dearborn, Baptized Imagination: The Theology of George MacDonald. Review by P.H. Brazier

Stephanie L. Derrick, The Fame of C.S. Lewis: A Controversialist’s Reception in Britain and America.

David Downing, The Most Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis’s Journey to Faith. Review by M.M. Hubele

Justin Dyer and Micah J. Watson, C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law. Review by Basil J. McLaren

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Raymond Edwards, Tolkien. Review by Nelson Goering

Julian Eilmann, J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet. Review by Nick Katsiadas

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Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger (eds), Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work, Its Precursors, and Its Legacies. Review by Giuseppe Pezzini

Jason Fisher (ed.), Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays. Review by Faith Liu

Lynn Forest (ed.), The Mirror Crack’d: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Major Works. Review by Olli-Pekka Vainio

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Michael Gilmour, Animals in the Writings of C.S. Lewis. Review by David Clough

Diana Pavlac Glyer, Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings. Review by Christine Perrin

Diana Pavlac Glyer, The Company They Keep. Review by Suzanne M. Wolfe

Stewart Goetz, C.S. Lewis. Review by David McNaughton

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Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds.), The Lord of the Rings. Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder. Review by P.H. Brazier

Trevor Hart and Ivan Khovacs (eds), The Tree of Tales. Review by B.N. Wolfe

Laurence Harwood, C.S. Lewis My Godfather. Review by Lydia Newell

Dinah Hazell, The Plants of Middle-earth: Botany and Sub-creation. Review by Jason Fisher

Brian Hebblethwaite, The Philosophical Theology of Austin Farrer. Review by Simon Oliver

Joel D. Heck (ed.), C.S. Lewis and E.M.W. Tillyard: The Personal Heresy: A Controversy. Review by Brendan N. Wolfe

Joel D. Heck, Irrigating Deserts. Review by Roger White

Deborah H. Higgens, Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Review by Nelson Goering

Richard Hill and Lyle Smith, Teaching C.S. Lewis. Review by Roger White

Jonathan B. Himes (ed.), Truths breathed through Silver. Review by Charles Foster

Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann (eds), Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Review by Philip Tallon

Walter Hooper (ed.), C.S. Lewis: Collected Letters Vol. 3. Review by Michael Ward

Walter Hooper (ed.), C.S. Lewis: Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews. Review by Arend Smilde

Thomas Howard, The Night is Far Spent. Review by Sarah Elizabeth Maple

Joshua Hren, Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy. Review by Germaine Paulo Walsh

Edith M. Humphrey, Further Up and Further In: Orthodox Conversations with C.S. Lewis on Scripture and Theology. Review by Patrick Gray

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Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis. Review essay by Erik Tonning

Alan Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. Review by Laura Smit

Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, Flora of Middle-earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium. Review by T.S. Miller

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Paul E. Kerry (ed.), The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings. Review by Shaun Blanchard

Don W. King, Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter. Review essay by Walter Hooper

Don King (ed.), Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman. Review by Judith Wolfe

Don W. King (ed.), Sudden Heaven: The Collected Poems of Ruth Pitter: A Critical Edition. Review by Elizabeth Hadaway

Gareth Knight, The Magical World of the Inklings. Review by Joshua Roberts

Wesley A. Kort, Reading C.S. Lewis: A Commentary. Review by Peter Benbow

Peter Kreeft, C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium. Review by Philip Zoutendam

Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings. Review by Dimitri Phillips

Gisela H. Kreglinger, Storied Revelations. Parables, Imagination, and George MacDonald’s Christian Fiction. Review by P.H. Brazier

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Corey Latta, C.S. Lewis and the Art of Writing: What the Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing. Review by Paul Tankard

Grevel Lindop, Charles Williams: The Third Inkling.

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Rob MacSwain and Ann Loades (ed.), The Truth-Seeking Heart: Austin Farrer and His Writings. Review by Mark Edwards

George M. Marsden, C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography. Review by Trevor Hart

Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis: A Life. Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet. Review essay by Arend Smilde

Alister McGrath, Deep Magic, Dragons & Talking Mice: How Reading C.S. Lewis Can Change Your Life. Review by William Gallagher

Jonathan S. McIntosh, The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie. Review by Euan Grant

Alison Milbank, Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real. Review by Aidan Nichols, OP

Peter Miller. The Lion, the Witch, and the Extraordinary Perspective in C. S. Lewis. Review by Shannon C. Coker

Thomas Möllenbeck and Berthold Wald (eds), Wahrheit und Selbstüberschreitung. C.S. Lewis und Josef Pieper über den Menschen. Review by Arend Smilde

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth: Theological Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien. Review by David Grubbs

Timothy M. Mosteller and Gayne John Anacker (eds), Contemporary Perspectives on C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man: History, Philosophy, Education, and Science. Review by Jon Fennell

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Armand M. Nicoli, The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life. Review by Lydia Newell

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Nick Page (ed.), George MacDonald: Phantastes: Special Annotated Edition. Review by Judith Wolfe

Michael Partridge and Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson (eds), Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy. Review by J. Patrick Pazdziora

Joseph Pearce, C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church. Review by William R. Gallagher

Joseph Pearce, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton. Review by Travis Buchanan

Mary Anne Phemister and Andrew Lazo (eds), Mere Christians: Inspiring Stories of Encounters with C.S. Lewis. Review by Brendan N. Wolfe

Richard Platt, As One Devil to Another: A Fiendish Correspondence in the Tradition of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. Review by A.T. Reyes

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Duncan Reyburn, Seeing Things as They Are: G.K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning. Review by Mark Knight

A.T. Reyes (ed.), C.S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile. Review by Anthony Esolen

Philip Ryken, The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth: Images of Christ’s Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings. Review by David Grubbs

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Abigail Santamaria, Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis. Review by Doug Jackson

Dorothy L. Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine. Review by Cole Matson

Peter J. Schakel, The Way into Narnia: A Reader’ Guide. Review by Shannon C. Taylor

Jacob Schriftman, The C.S. Lewis Book on the Bible: What the Greatest Christian Writer Thought About the Greatest Book. Review by Paul Tankard

Eduardo Segura and Thomas M. Honegger (eds), Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings. Review by Brandon Dorn

Michael Shallcross, Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture. Review by Anna Vaninskaya

Laura K. Simmons, Creed without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers. Review by James Watkins

Andrew C. Skinner and Robert L. Millet (eds), C.S. Lewis: The Man and His Message. Review by Jared Lafitte

Charlie Starr, The Faun’s Bookshelf: C.S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters. Review by Josiah Peterson

Amy H. Sturgis (ed.), Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith. in the World of C.S. Lewis. Review by Ivan P. Khovacs

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Gary L. Tandy, The Rhetoric of Certitude: C.S. Lewis’s Nonfiction Prose. Review by Simon Vaughan

Claudio A. Testi, Pagan Saints in Middle-earth. Review by Raymond Hain

Michael Tomko, Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien. Review by Jeffrey W. Barbeau

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Olli-Pekka Vainio, Cosmology in Theological Perspective: Understanding Our Place in the Universe. Review by Greg Cootsona

Will Vaus, Mere Theology: A Guide to the Thought of C.S. Lewis. Review by Jason Lepojärvi

Mark Vernon, A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness. Review by Jacob Sherman

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Milton Walsh, Second Friends: C.S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation. Review by Cole Matson

John G. West (ed.), The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society. Review by Jonathan McGee

Elizabeth Whittingham, The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology. Review by B.N. Wolfe

Erik J. Wielenberg, God and the Reach of Reason. C.S. Lewis, David Hume and Bertrand Russell. Review by Olli-Pekka Vainio

Charles Williams, The Celian Moment, and Other Essays. Edited by Stephen Barber. Review by Bradley Wells

Charles Williams, The Chapel of the Thorn: A Dramatic Poem. Edited by Sørina Higgins. Review by Paul Blair

Donald T. Williams, Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien on the Human Condition. Review by Shannon C. Coker

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Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings. Review by Simon Blaxland-de Lange