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

The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…

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

A look at how the rise of mass media has helped us create alternative 'electronic universes' – worlds where God has no place.

A review of Nick Barham's Disconnected: Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew.

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In this book, Dan Strange highlights five compelling questions the world constantly attempts to answer – whether it’s aware of it or not.

A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.