Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst
Hopkins’ Sigmund Freud locks horns with Matthew Goode’s CS Lewis in an imaginary encounter that is watchable but not terribly profound
May 2024
Brief letters
CS Lewis should have tried self-reflection
‘Loud-mouthed bully’: CS Lewis satirised Oxford peer in secret poems
April 2024
‘This idle prig’: the truth about CS Lewis and John Betjeman’s long-lasting feud
At Oxford, Lewis complained repeatedly in his diary about his student Betjeman’s attitude to work. A newly discovered letter throws light on their mutual antipathy
December 2023
Brief letters
Items ‘donated’ to the nation are simply what taxpayers are owed
Tolkien and CS Lewis manuscripts among treasures made available to public in 2023
November 2023
Week in geek
Can Greta Gerwig bring a new kind of magic to Netflix’s Narnia Chronicles?
The Barbie film-maker is set to direct adaptations of at least two of CS Lewis’s fantasy novels for the streaming giant – will she do better than the last ones?
October 2023
The last word
‘A painful absence all of the time’: the best descriptions of loneliness in literature
The last word, our series about emotions in books, focuses on depictions of isolation this month, from a memoir of grief to Sam Selvon’s Windrush chronicle
July 2023
Daniel Kaluuya’s Barney the Dinosaur film to be ‘adult’ and ‘lean into millennial angst’
Mattel says the Barney movie will be inspired by Charlie Kaufman, while Barbie director Greta Gerwig is planning two Narnia movies for Netflix
February 2023
Freudian trip: psychoanalyst’s London home recreated in Dublin for major film
Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins, will feature a replica of the famous couch
September 2022
The Guardian view on beavers: a spur to hope for nature’s recovery
Editorial: The successful reintroduction of these charismatic, industrious rodents proves that restoring ecosystems is possible
July 2022
The week in theatre: Chasing Hares; 101 Dalmatians; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe review – a dark, riveting revamp
May 2022
I’m addicted to the spoken word – I blame the Roald Dahl cassettes of my childhood
Nell Frizzell
Whether it’s a true-crime podcast while cleaning or an audiobook while running, I can’t get enough of the human voice. Is it because Matilda used to ease me to sleep?
January 2022
Freud’s Last Session review – the analyst and the Narnia author at loggerheads
Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis have a debate about religion that applies the lost notion of civilised disagreement in Mark St Germain’s trenchant play
November 2021
Narnia by air: a flying lesson with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
An afternoon with aerial director Gwen Hales reveals the dedication and expertise this stage show requires for its magical effects
March 2021
Truth, profits and the purpose of journalism
Letters: Integrity is in short supply in many newsrooms, argues Michael Newman, while Eddie O’Brien says journalists must do more to reflect opposing views in their reports
February 2021
'Quiet, CS Lewis is on': why subject of new film could be right for now
Norman Stone’s The Most Reluctant Convert follows author’s conversion from atheism to Christianity
August 2020
The bias of blessings that are blind to love
Yorkshire church to be adorned with Chronicles of Narnia statues
