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

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

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…

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…

A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

A review of the film Les Misérables.

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

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