Claude Lévi-Strauss

Hail dairy

23 September 2023 9:00 am

A lifetime obsession with milk has resulted in 350 numbered, lightly edited and loosely connected remarks about milk, its colour, its smell and much else. Weird or what?

A frictionless history of fieldwork: In Search of Us reviewed

23 July 2022 9:00 am

To be an anthropologist today is to understand, as few in the secular modern university can, what it is to…

Flamboyant intellectuals: René Descartes (main picture) and Bernard-Henri Lévy (below), in 1978

Liberty, philosophy and 246 types of cheese

20 June 2015 9:00 am

The French have always favoured grand, elegant abstractions about the human condition, says Ruth Scurr. It’s part of their national identity

Symbolism and a man called U: more avant-garde fiction from Tom McCarthy

21 March 2015 9:00 am

In a 2008 essay Zadie Smith held up Tom McCarthy’s austere debut Remainder as a bold exemplar of avant-garde fiction,…