A prolific novelist and essayist, Muriel Spark disdained sentimentality – yet this masks just how strange her writing could be.
Culture is neither passively consumed, nor handed down from on high, as the work of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart reminds us.
The best reaction to a man who courts controversy is total apathy.
News of a 24-hour atheist TV channel in the US was met with derision, but actually, it is eminently reasonable.
What science can tell us about the universe, Tim Minchin, remembering Stuart Hall, the "Trojan Horse" scandal, and much more
From his novels to his innovative use of social media, Teju Cole encourages his readers to think before they feel, writes Fatema Ahmed
The films of Lars von Trier promise to challenge traditional ethics – but the director is too self-involved to say anything profound, writes Agata Pyzik
Terry Eagleton and Roger Scruton are the latest in a line of thinkers to suggest that, without religion, something is missing in our lives. They’re wrong, argues Peter Watson