Articles by Paul Martin

Every December, we fans of The Chronicles of Narnia rediscover something that C.S. Lewis understood deeply: Christmas is not merely a date on the calendar; rather, it is the breaking-in of hope. That moment when […]

Jill Freud — actress, producer, and one of the real young women who helped shape C.S. Lewis’s vision of what a brave and good child could be — has died at age 98. Her daughter, […]

A Literary Adventure in the City of Dreaming Spires There are a few places in the world that feel like they were designed for readers. Oxford is one of them. Between the cobblestone streets, the […]

Daniel Craig, best known for his iconic run as James Bond, has officially joined the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew for Netflix. I first saw Craig in Road to Perdition (2002) alongside […]

If you’ve followed NarniaFans for any length of time, you know we love spotting Narnia references in unexpected places — and one of the latest comes from a rather surprising source: the Ghostbusters universe! It’s […]

On one of our Facebook posts about the upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, a reader’s comment stood out to us as something that helped us put things into perspective. We have our own thoughts as […]

When I first watched the BBC version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I had already seen the animated version of the story. I was very young, and TV screens weren’t particularly clear. So […]

Barbara Kellerman, for so many, was the version of the White Witch that people would picture whenever they read the Chronicles of Narnia, after seeing the BBC version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. She […]