Culture

A thoughtful revival of William Nicholson’s play traces CS Lewis’s unexpected marriage to Joy Davidman and the spiritual questions it provoked

Georgia L. Gilholy

Robert Icke’s Romeo and Juliet strips away Romantic myth to reveal Shakespeare’s warning about reckless desire

Andrew Cusack

Before the rise of Islam, Sasanian Persia sheltered a remarkable Christian world whose memory still lingers in poetry, legend and cinema

Andrew Cusack

A new report reveals how fear, informal sanctions and reputational anxiety are reshaping artistic life and narrowing the space for creative risk

Lola Salem

Hugh Laurie’s return as Richard Roper anchors a story of manipulation and grace, where the battle between good and evil is sharply drawn

Isobel Yuill

Falling, a new drama for Channel 4, presents the violation of priestly and religious vows as the core tension of a forbidden love story

The Catholic Herald

The challenge of forming hearts of charity in children amid a culture increasingly marked by isolation and loss of meaning

Dominic Perrem

Joseph Pearce and Jan C Bentz examine the theological vision in Tolkien’s fiction, from providence and liturgy to the Catholic imagination

Jan C. Bentz

The booming true crime genre raises questions about whether fascination with evil can slide into something morally disordered

Georgia Gilholy

James MacMillan’s Angels Unawares received its world premiere in the Sistine Chapel

Edward Barrett-Shortt