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

The act of reading is an act of decoding. Until our everyday habits are disrupted, we don’t realize how complex a process it is. How…

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

William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language - yet we know little about his personal life. Jerram Barrs…

A review of the film The Great Gatsby.

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 J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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,…

Dawn Bundy is a fifteen-year-old English girl. She is not especially attractive, and she doesn’t really fit in. Her best friends are…