Anthropology
Castaneda the sorcerer
Hoaxer, fraud … prophet?
David Graeber (1961-2020)
A requiem for the radical anthropologist
Cry foal
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on food taboos and why the British won’t eat horsemeat
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s intellectual journey from Peterhouse, to a London college full of left-wing firebrands, from sophisticated intellectual soirées in Holland Park to a “bohemian blur” in Essex and a squalid Fleet Street pub
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
