Going to war should be the hardest part; coming home should be easy, yet for too many soldiers it brings its own set of challenges beyond the recovery

Stories can heal, stories can hurt, and inherently stories have power, and since first publication almost forty years ago Alvin Schwartz’ three volume collection of Scary Stories to

The streets of Edinburgh,1849, full of life and death, of poverty and possibility; the use of chloroform as anaesthetic as pioneered by Doctor James Young Simpson has made

“I have no idea what the reaction to Cruising would be today… but it will at least be more understood.” Even before its release in February 1980, the

The latest volume in the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library edited by Mike Ashley, Menace of the Machine gathers fourteen stories originally published between 1894

Now on UK Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion is one of the most significant American films of the early 1970s and perhaps, even, of all time. Terrence Malick’s impressionistic

It was on the night of 11th December 1973 that it happened in the Bavarian town of Würzburg, a confession by a distraught priest that he had murdered

It has been fifty years since humanity safely reached the Moon and returned to Earth, and it might be another fifty more before we reach Mars, but with

She was ambitious: she did not wish to spend her life as a wife and mother, as the other women in her village seemed content to do; rather,

Sometimes superheroes come by their powers by chance, sometimes they are a birthright, but sometimes they must be worked for: from the Land of the Long White Cloud,