What would the world be like if no one had ever lied? Ricky Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, explores this question with the…

This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.

Vincent Van Gogh is now a solid fixture in our cultural vocabulary. I need only mention sunflowers or a bandaged ear to conjure up his life…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

The Rev. Dr. Michael Ward is an Anglican minister and the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. It…

A review of the film of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

The Shawshank Redemption has earned a reputation for being one of the most popular films of all time. Despite an unimpressive performance…

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

Why do people do the things they do? It’s a question the world’s greatest philosophers, theologians, scientists and doctors…