“This question of the meaning of being, and dying and being, is behind the telling of stories around tribal fires at night; behind the drawing of animals on the walls of caves; the singing of melodies of love in spring, and of the death of green in autumn. It is part of the deepest longing […]
Ken LewisMy youngest daughter and I read a picture book by Madeleine L’Engle the other night. We hadn’t shared The Other Dog before, so we sat smooshed in an armchair with it, each of us holding a cover. And we laughed: it’s a good book. The dog, Touché, L’Engle Franklin, is upset over a “new dog” […]
Dear Ones, This year for Earth Day, I went to Antarctica from my living room chair. Madeleine L’Engle brought me there, through the novel Troubling a Star. The book, the final in the Austin Family Chronicles, opens with a teenaged, terrified Vicky clinging to an iceberg in the ocean. Before we read about any rescue operation (or […]
My mind went to Madeleine L’Engle last week when I saw the first picture of a black hole. Science, astronomy, physics, quantum mechanics — all those things caught her imagination. In And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings, Madeleine writes about how she and her husband (Hugh Franklin) would gaze at the stars, “seeing out […]
Michigan State UniversityMeg saved the world again last week in East Lansing, Michigan. Michigan State University’s theater department transformed an intimate stage into Camazotz for the occasion, bringing to campus a stage adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. This was a book-lover’s show: a tribute to the story and its truth, not a high-tech reproduction of detail-by-detail […]
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