Why do all the major religions have a fetish about women's hair? Sally Feldman celebrates a hidden source of power
Solana Larsen catches up with a past life in New York
Stuart Sim needs some quiet time
Dorothy Rowe is touched by messages from the past
As two new TV series about the early days of the department store hit UK screens, we revisit Sally Feldman's paeon to the all too human(ist) urge to shop
What do the Beatles, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, Patricia Arquette and Michael Keaton have in common, asks Michael Shermer
With nipple counts at an all-time high, inflated sales of silicon implants, and the relentless rise of topless celebrities, Sally Feldman puzzles over the sexual politics of breasts
'I shop, therefore I am'
Peter Kerr-Jarrett takes a couch trip
Raffaella Malaguti on Rome's birth controllers