new works commissioned from contemporary New Zealand artists
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
an agar plate of mundanity
“I'd read this book over and over again”
who serves as their centre of gravity
A Grief Observed Jhumpa Lahiri new works commissioned from contemporaryIn April 1956, C. S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he