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
Mind, Body & Life
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
Turn me on, dead man
What do the Beatles, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, Patricia Arquette and Michael Keaton have in common, asks Michael Shermer
Coming out on top
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
From the front
Dorothy Rowe is touched by messages from the past
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