The ‘heretic’ at odds with scientific dogma
Rupert Sheldrake has researched telepathy in dogs, crystals and Chinese medicine in his quest to explore phenomena that science finds hard to explainIt is not often, in liberal north London, that you come face to face with a heretic, but Rupert Sheldra...
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Viggo Mortensen channels the spirit of Sigmund Freud, Southwark says no to Brit grit, and let's hear it (again) for UndefeatedViggo's Freudian slip One of the strangest interviews I've ever conducted happened last week when I met Viggo Mortensen in Sig...
Piltdown Man: British archaeology’s greatest hoax | Robin McKie
When the find was revealed to be a 'cheap fraud', several eminent men – including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – were put in the frame. Now scientists aim to put an end to the mystery once and for allIn a few weeks, a group of British researchers wi...
Vincent Cassel: ‘You can’t escape from what you are’
The actor, trained ballet dancer, and husband of Monica Bellucci is a man of hidden depths. In his latest role, he plays an anarchic disciple of Sigmund Freud. So, asks Elizabeth Day, did he get to the bottom of why he's drawn to the dark side?Vincent ...
My hero by Simon Callow
'Having experienced the lower depths, he never ceased to commit himself to trying to right the wrongs inflicted by society'You start with the work, of course. In my case The Pickwick Papers, thrust into my hands at the age of 13. It danced before my ey...
Oh, Vienna
The modern world was created by those who haunted the Austrian capital in the first 14 years of the 20th century. The writer returns to the place that gave rise to his latest novel, Waiting for SunriseIt took me about half an hour to walk from the cent...
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Week one: the storytellerThis is a ghost story, so we start with the storyteller. Literary critics rarely use this last term, preferring to talk of the "narrator". But when it comes to hauntings this traditional description is fitting. Arthur Kipps is ...
John Mullan’s 10 of the best: erotic dreams
From Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene to a rooftop encounter in Thomas Pynchon's V, here are some of the most memorable erotic dreams in literatureThe Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser"… by my side a royall Mayd / Her daintie limbes full softly down did ...
Jacqueline Rose: a life in writing
'Victimhood is something that happens but when you turn it into an identity you're psychically and politically finished'One day, Jacqueline Rose came across a troubling passage in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. The narrator, Marcel, lies besid...
Great Scott! Fitzgerald is enjoying a third act