Perhaps a society truly becomes lost when it doesn't know how lost it is. This is the eerie suggestion put forward by Never Let Me Go,…

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…

A review of the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

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

The title and witch-themed publicity made me a little unsure about whether a Christian should be joining the crowds flocking to this…

Chronicles of Heaven Unshackled examines the presence (and absence) of God in the English novel, with particular reference to Tolkien and…

A review of Russell Brand's My Booky Wook.

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

This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…