What would the world be like if no one had ever lied? Ricky Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, explores this question with the…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…

James Bond has been in the spying business for such a long time that he really ought to be up for a long-service award. But the…

Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.

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 Lily Allen's CD It's Not Me It's You.

Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

Review of Amazing Grace in the light of whether religion is a force for good or for bad.

What can we learn from the film Bruce Almighty?