Cathars
Graham Robb deserves to be a French national treasure
Philip Hensher is enthralled by Graham Robb’s evocative new history of France
Cathar country
I once spent three months living in the Languedoc, writing my first novel. The highlight was the few days I…
Mary Magdalene: all-singing, all-dancing Goddess of Light
Many of the great faith narratives (the Holy Quran being a notable exception) are clumsy, rough-hewn things; makepiece amalgams of…
