Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

The forthright defence of the permissibility of "after-birth abortion" – infanticide – by two Melbourne-based philosophers in…

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In this paper, Stuart Judge considers whether discoveries in neuroscience that correlate our mental activity with our brain activity…

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…

The world's only consulting detective steps into the 21st Century in the BBC series Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the titular…

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Big Mike walks as though every step is an effort. Head and shoulders taller and a good few inches broader than everyone he passes, dressed…