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In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…

Towards the end of God on Trial, broadcast on Wednesday 3rd September 2008 on BBC2, a group of Auschwitz prisoners concluded that God was…

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

A review of the film The Spiderwick Chronicles.