Games

The serious business of games: Seven, by Joanna Kavenna, reviewed

17 January 2026 9:00 am

A young philosopher goes in search of the curator of the Society of Lost Things and the once world-famous game of Seven whose rules no one seems to know

Tarot isn’t very old or esoteric – but it does work

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Among my many fake and useless skills, I’m a reasonably decent tarot reader. I can do one for you now…

Dear Mary

13 June 2020 9:00 am

Q. Now we are instructed to mingle again, I’m sure I’m not alone in being surprised to find an awkwardness…

Middle-England Gothic: Anna Maxwell-Martin as Merrily Watkins in Midwinter of the Spirit

Talk of the devil

26 September 2015 8:00 am

For years, Ian Fleming was famously self-deprecating about the James Bond books. (‘I have a rule of not looking back,’…