I’ve been told that admitting you have a problem is the first step toward recovery. So, here it goes: My name is Shaun Fitzpatrick, and I am an Anglophile. Okay, so it’s not exactly a dramatic revelation, nor a surprising one to anyone who knows me. I’ve always been an Anglophile, and my obsession has […]
I have never had a problematic fave as beloved or as problematic as C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Growing up as a young atheist, Jewish, anti-racist, existentialist feminist, there were many moments in Lewis’s text that strained my unadulterated enjoyment of stories that were otherwise precisely in my wheelhouse. Remember when the Pevensies all die […]