This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.

Beyoncé is incredibly popular. What makes her music resonate so deeply with people?

A helpful talk for understanding transgender issues and thinking about how to respond to a transgender person.

'Whispers of Redemption' in Maleficent, Disney's makeover of Sleeping Beauty.

A review of the film The Great Gatsby.

M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

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

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…