magicians
Why we love to be baffled
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
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
Abiding charms
We seem just as captivated by magic today as our Sumerian ancestors ever were, says Suzi Feay
Period piece
There’s something — isn’t there? — of the literary also-ran about Graham Swift. He was on Granta’s first, influential Best…
