Alice in Wonderland, which is turning 150, shows how children’s literature can raise some of the fundamental questions regarding our existence.

The life of George Borrow and his passion for bringing the Bible to Spain fascinated the politician and republican president Manuel Azaña.

Frankenstein is one of the strongest warnings against the horror of trying to play God. 

Thirty-five years without Hitchcock. His films are chilling, not just because they show us evil unloosed into the world, but because that evil is so often banal and everyday, walking around on the streets of a town or a city just like ours.

The documentary “Montage of Heck” demystifies him as a figure, showing his more intimate and solitary side. 

In her famous Album “Easter” (1978), she focuses on the figure of Christ. Back then she said that “the myth of Christ is still exciting and stimulating to me”. 

After searching and struggling throughout his life, Eliot finally surrendered to the “peace that surpasses all understanding”. In 1926 he converted to Christianity.

His father was a fairly liberal reformed pastor. He spoke of Christ more as an example, than a substitute for sinners.

The last novel by Javier Marias Asi empieza lo malo (“This is where it all goes wrong”) is about the fear of our lives being destroyed by those secrets which could cause earthquakes at a moment’s notice.

The story of “The Crucible” reveals a dark side to the United States, where many people are still trying to build a New Jerusalem. 

The film which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, “Ida”, is a battle between reason and faith, the body and the spirit, hatred and forgiveness.

This isn’t a film about science but about the frailty of life. Although it revolves around the life of Stephen Hawking and his ideas, it is surprising how much the film talks about God.

A review of the film ‘Unbroken’: “We all need heroes. We want someone to admire, but often, we only find them in fiction. Angelina Jolie met a real one, who has recently left us.” 

Paradoxically, the greatest thing about Boyhood is its smallness: twelve years in the life of one individual, with his sorrows, joys, and constant questioning.

Salvation through the blood of Jesus was more important to Andraé than his seven Grammies. 

“Songs of Innocence” is an album which revolves around a feeling of nostalgia for lost innocence, taking us back to the days in which this Irish band was yet to become the most famous rock band in the world. 

Goldstein ("1984") is not simply Snowball/Trotsky. The “doublethink” in his text, prohibited in Oceania, “Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”, is a type of mental discipline, both desirable for and required of all members of the party, enabling people to believe two contradictory truths simultaneously. And that, of course, is nothing new. We all do it.