Yet another film foray into Wonderland demonstrates the abiding charm of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. But Tim Burton’s…

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…

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

Jodi Picoult is not an author to shy away from controversial topics. Her novels cover issues such as rape, suicide pacts and genetically…

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

Please note that the content of this talk partially overlaps that of Jerry Root’s other talk entitled 'C.S. Lewis’s Approach to…

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

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