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…

Chronicles of Heaven Unshackled examines the presence (and absence) of God in the English novel, with particular reference to Tolkien and…

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

The second of the two films adapted from J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel begins at the place where the first left us hanging:…

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,…

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

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,…

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