How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…

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

You've just arrived at art college. It's a pretty exciting time; for the first time in your life you are able to release the shackles of…

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…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

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What do we do when opportunities come our way? Do we sit back and watch them pass us by, or do we seize the day and chase our dreams? It is…

One of the many changes which the Internet has brought into our lives is that it is remarkably easy to masquerade as something we're not.…

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…