Why are so many of the films and TV shows we enjoy obsessed with the end of the world?

Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day? The consumerist flip.

Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.

M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…

James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

The most recent strain of Brontemania, at large throughout 2011, included major film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and the…

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…

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