Antigone
A cremation caper: Stealing Dad, by Sofka Zinovieff, reviewed
Part grief-memoir, part macabre escapade, Zinovieff’s latest book is inspired by her own father’s bizarre strictures regarding his funeral
Ancient and modern: Antigone and algorithms
Hardly a day goes by without someone making excitable predictions about human progress and how, thanks to AI, we are…
A clash of loyalties
If someone was to lob the name Antigone about, many of us would smile and nod while trying to remember…
Women of Thebes
What if the gods of Greek myth had parallels with Freud’s notion of the unconscious? This is just one idea…