An Everlasting Man of Letters

by | Oct 30, 2011

G. K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), xiv + 747 pp., $65.00 cloth Among the genres in which G. K. Chesterton wrote was critical biography. With typical paradox, Chesterton defined two duties for such authors that seem...

Significance and Missteps

by | Mar 20, 2011

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908 by William Oddie. Oxford University Press (Oxford) ix + 401 pp., $50.00 cloth, $29.95 paper, 2008.The poet David Jones once called one’s formative period “the years of becoming.” William Oddie...

A Rare Specimen

by | Dec 25, 2007

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs. HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco) xxvi + 432 pp., $25.95 cloth, $14.95 paper, 2005. J. R. R. Tolkien once told a future biographer of C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) that “You’ll never get to the bottom of...