Reviews of some of Joanne Harris' novels, including Chocolat.

A review of Nick Barham's Disconnected: Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew.

A helpful talk for understanding transgender issues and thinking about how to respond to a transgender person.

What can we learn from the current obsession for nostalgia?

A review of the film Lincoln.

"Make them remember you." The Doctor’s advice to Amy and Rory as they faced the Parliament of the Daleks (episode 1: 'Asylum of the…

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

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…

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…