Potatoes on couch
Time for Life
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Cases of vanity
Embodied Practices - The Sculpture Machine
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Of female bondage: from bone to Lycra
The Feminine Ideal
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Brands hatched
Excellence in Advertising
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Comedy with a few errors
A Cultural History of Humour
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Euro bonds and splits
Britain in Europe
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When death is unspoken
Endangered Langauges
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the observations of a Danish police reporter in New York: "Long ago it was...
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Fakirs, fakery and the facts
Are psychic powers real or bunkum? Ex-magician Richard Wiseman took science into paranormal realms Throughout history religious leaders have performed apparent miracles, often using such...
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Money for old rope?
Are psychic powers real or bunkum? Ex-magician Richard Wiseman took science into paranormal realms Psychic powers are big business. Tarot-card readers and palmists make money out of divining your...
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A doleful prospect
Long-term unemployment and social exclusion threaten to dominate the forthcoming G8 summit. Emma Haughton reports The rise of persistent unemployment has long been a bug-bear of Western governments,...
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What does it take to be a woman?
Worldly wise 4. Judith Butler has attracted a wide following for work that redefines our ideas about gender. But does her project have a political value beyond linguistic playfulness When Gloria...
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'Too secret...too late'
The BSE inquiry last week renewed its efforts to uncover the anatomy of the country's worst ever food-safety crisis. Its chairman, Appeal Court judge Sir Nicholas Phillips, insists his "primary...
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Bookstore wars are brewing...
and the weapons are coffee and comfy chairs. John Davies on the US threat galvanising British booksellers Go into the big branch of Dillons on Gower Street in London, just round the corner from...
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CJD and the doomsday scenario
'Too secret...too late' The BSE panic began in March 1996 when ministers announced the discovery of ten deaths among young people from an "unusual" form of the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and...