The next issue of the St. Austin Review is at the printer. This issue’s theme is “C. S. Lewis & Friends”. Highlights include:

Peter Milward SJ, who knew Lewis personally, summarizes “what Lewis has meant for me”.

Mina Milburn surveys theatrical adaptations of Lewis’ work in “C. S. Lewis, in a theater near you”.

Paula L. Gallagher sees “Truth in Mythology”, comparing “Ancient Greece and Narnia”.

Magdalena Dajka examines “the Theology of The Last Battle”.

Tobias Lanz focuses on “Gervase Mathew O.P.: Inkling, Teacher, Scholar, and Friend”.

Rachel Ronnow and Portia Hopkins are “Getting to Know Mrs. Lewis” and find themselves “Surprised by Joy”.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker muses on “C. S. Lewis on Male Friendship”.

Marissa Standage grapples with “A Theory of Faërie” and discovers “Free Will as Fundamental in Tolkien’s Narrative Fiction”.

Fr. Benedict Kiely celebrates “The Revival of the Shire”.

Ken Clark admires Eve Tempted, a masterpiece by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope.

James Bemis reviews 8½, Federico Fellini’s classic movie.

Susan Treacy looks at the legacy of Thomas Campion, composer, poet and contemporary of Shakespeare.

Kevin O’Brien is less than impressed with “The Wal-Mart of Beers”.

Donald DeMarco is less than satisfied with “A Harem of Imaginary Brides”.

Shaun Blanchard reviews the Wade Annotated Edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress and Plain to the Inward Eye: Selected Essays on C. S. Lewis.

David Rozema reviews The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle.

Marie Dudzik reviews C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education and The Beauty of God’s House: Essays in Honor of Stratford Caldecott.

Marie Dudzik also reviews The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis.

Hannah DeRocher reviews The Letters of Ruth Pitter.

Philip J. Harold reviews The Conscience of the Institution.

New Poetry by Mike Aquilina and Tim Butler.