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

A review of Doctor Who, Series 4 starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.

How do we know who or what to trust? This is one of the key questions of the world we live in today. So many claims compete for our trust:…

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

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

A review of the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

Please note that the content of this talk partially overlaps that of Jerry Root’s other talk entitled 'C.S. Lewis’s Approach to…

Why the growing popularity of Jane Austen? Is it accidental, a typical postmodern temporary fad, or is there some deeper reason for the…