magicians

Why we love to be baffled

22 June 2024 9:00 am

So much of life is a search for answers. How to get ahead, how to earn more money, how to…

When the local wizard was the repository of all wisdom

11 May 2024 9:00 am

Before the arrival of ‘proper’ doctors, everyone in the Middle Ages, from rulers to peasants, turned to magic practitioners and cunning folk for healing and advice

Learned necromancers and lascivious witches: magic and misogyny through the ages

7 October 2023 9:00 am

We seem just as captivated by magic today as our Sumerian ancestors ever were, says Suzi Feay

Cosy, comforting and a bit inconsequential: Here We Are, by Graham Swift, reviewed

29 February 2020 9:00 am

There’s something — isn’t there? — of the literary also-ran about Graham Swift. He was on Granta’s first, influential Best…