The dwarves have all the best songs. Whether they are singing raucous ditties about smashing Bilbo’s best crockery or low, mournful…

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

An old lady in a headscarf is buying a pint of milk in a local shop. She’s surprised by the price of the milk, and disturbed by 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,…

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

The title and witch-themed publicity made me a little unsure about whether a Christian should be joining the crowds flocking to this…

A review of the TV series Spooks.

A review of the film and book The Corporation.

This wide-ranging collection of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' writing and speeches offers plenty of food for thought.