The most recent strain of Brontemania, at large throughout 2011, included major film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and 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…

Vampires are currently one of the biggest phenomena in popular culture. They are central to hit television series like True Blood, Being…

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

In Fictional Absence, Pete Lowman considers the presence and absence of God in English literature. It has been slightly revised for…

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

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

English literary history is a curious thing. And one especially curious thing about it is that it contains very little of importance which…