For instance, with the growth in paganism, the appeal of St George has been less his sanctity than his role as dying and reviving god of vegetation, as featured in what we call ‘fertility myth’. Again ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the anthropologist and philosopher, has died. He was 100 years old. He was the son of a portrait painter, the grandson of a rabbi, and the great-grandson of a violinist. He was ...