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

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

Bill Maher, a well-known American comedian, satirist and religious sceptic has added this comedy-documentary to the growing number of…

It doesn’t take usually take too much persuasion to get me to try a new box set of DVDs, but I have to say that I was a little…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

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

A review of the book God Explained in a Taxi Ride.

This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…

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