Goethe’s character Faust is a potent symbol of Everyman in our modern hi-tech wonderland. If we have the money, we can have almost anything we desire delivered to our door the next day. Does that make us happy? Does that make us good? Does that make us safe? This may be the most eccentric review […]
Goethe’s Faust, a Parable of Modern Techno Man Read More »
This a terrific film about a man who is not there. It won this year’s Palme d’Or for its tragi-comic depiction of a group of dissidents in Iran. It was shot secretly by the director Jafar Panahi, who was only released from his latest spell in prison after a hunger strike. A man is driving
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I followed my usual practice of reading the contents first – and the introduction at the end. I am glad I postponed the personal intro, because this is a rare Christian book which can make good sense to people of any faith or none. In it the author describes her life experience through the lens
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What to make of The Golden Bough in the 21st Century? It’s an amazing work of late Victorian anthropology examining ancient myths and fertility rituals all over the world. And it shows how some of them were the roots that became part of Judaism and Christianity. All these rituals were designed to ensure the continuing
Primitive Magic of the Golden Bough Read More »
When I was invited to join the editorial team of “Just Beauty”, I had only recently seen the film “Conclave”, based on the Robert Harris novel of the same name, about the death of a pope and the election of a new one, and I was enthusing about it. I undertook to write a review
Why CONCLAVE is well worth seeing, even for a Humanist Read More »
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is a book published in 2009 by the polymath psychiatrist and philosopher Dr Iain McGilchrist. When I heard him speak at a day conference at the Royal Institution in London last year, it inspired me with the idea to set up
More than one kind of human truth Read More »
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