Craft works: Laurie Taylor interviews Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett tells Laurie Taylor why he believes in patience, practicality and a job well done
Mind, Body & Life
Diary
Forget about the stars, the Wise Men and the Baby Jesus. Christmas is all about family, says Carrie Quinlan
Check republics
The game of chess has its roots in rationalism. And, like the Enlightenment itself, argues Sally Feldman, it’s a force for both liberation and tyranny
Analyse this!
In a field so riven by schism as psychoanalysis, a new book about Freud has to be greeted with some scepticism, says Joseph Schwartz
Till death us do part?
Weddings may be as popular as ever, but, as Sally Feldman discovers from our own survey, the chimes they are a changing
Sssshhhhh…
Stuart Sim needs some quiet time
Mystic Manhattan
Solana Larsen catches up with a past life in New York
Because you’re worth it
Why do all the major religions have a fetish about women's hair? Sally Feldman celebrates a hidden source of power
Are you being served?
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
Ergo Mania
'I shop, therefore I am'