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Welcome to the Arts section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

Universally Acknowledged Truths?

  • Date:

    25-01-2013

  • Author:

    Antony Billington

This Sunday sees the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Besides selling over 20 million copies worldwide, it has been brought to life in many adaptations, including a Bollywood cinema version, an Israeli TV series, and a zombie mash-up...

Wanted: One Decent Christmas Card

  • Date:

    14-12-2012

  • Author:

    Sarah-Jane Marshall

When you choose your Christmas cards, how much thought do you give to the image on the front?

Sweet Tooth But No Smiley

  • Date:

    28-09-2012

  • Author:

    Mark Greene

Ian McEwan is widely regaled as one of our leading novelists. His latest offering, Sweet Tooth, is a cold war spy thriller set in 1970s, recession-hit Britain. Certainly, it rattles along and its critical reception, if not ecstatic, has been warm...

An Unexpected Journey

  • Date:

    21-09-2012

  • Author:

    Rachel Giles

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. So begins J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic children’s tale, published 75 years ago today, of the diminutive Bilbo Baggins and his perilous journey across Wilderland with 13 dwarves...

God’s Pleasure

  • Date:

    20-07-2012

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

No doubt you’ve found yourself at a sports day egging on your child, or watched someone running for a train or taxi, or have jogged along a beach, and have forced your vocal cords...

Beyond The Scream: Munch’s Modern Eye

Love’s Warnings

I’ll Be Your Mirror

By Their Fruits...

Talking About My Generation?

Shaking Still

Harry Potter & the Magic of Love

The Godless Book

In The Beginning Was... The Word

Essential Coupland: 'Player One'

Made In China

Arvo Part

Holiday Reading

The Greatest Story Ever (Re)told

Cry Freedom

Black and White

Pretenders to the Throne

Asterix the Racist?

Design for Life

Finding the Lost with Brown's Symbol

A Dark Strain: J G Ballard

Prophectic Voices

It's Just a Big White Horse?

Struck by the Power of Now

Seven Ways to Change the World

Liverpool Nativity

Mona Lisa's Eyebrows

Darwin's Angel

Atonement

Welcome to Everytown

Coffee Stains

The reporter

Soul Music

Roots to Happiness

Velvet Elvis

Johnny Cash - American V

United 93

The Da Vinci Code

Choose Your Words

District and Circle

My Way

The Politics of Hollywood

God's Politics

The Root of all Evil?

Fact and Fantasy

No Sex Please, We're Teenagers

George and the Chocolate Factory

Angels and Demons - The Opportunity

Movements and Moments

Harry Potter and the Subjects the Church Forgot

War of the Worlds

Brian Draper's Interview with Thom Yorke for Third Way

Dr Who

Paxman and the theatre of politics

Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

The Monastery

Downfall

Tattoos

Never Let Me Go

The New Ten Commandments

Saturday

The Rough Guide to Ethical Shopping

Athlete

The Twilight of Atheism

Jerry Springer - The Opera

Dawkins' God

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2

The Corporation

Heresies - John Gray

Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland

Fahrenheit 9/11

The history boys

Hey Douglas Coupland!

Taking to the streets

21 Grams

The Passion of the Christ

Dido, Love lost and safe sex

Girl with a Pearl Earring

The return of the king

Vernon god little

Love actually

Matrix Revolutions

Calendar Girls

In Da Winning Corner - Dizzee Rascal

Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland

Rowling Along?

A Prophet for our Time

The Power of an Honest Heart

About a Boy

Every Dog has his Day

AI - Even Better than the Real Thing?

All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland

The Soloist

The Village

The Day After Tomorrow

Positively Vulgar

How I Caused the Credit Crunch

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