lies
The sham shaman: the fantastic lies of Carlos Castaneda
An entirely invented memoir, supposedly relaying the wisdom of a Mexican guru, was not only a cult bestseller but was endorsed by anthropologists and even UCLA
Were the lies we told to combat communism so shameful?
Part of the disinformation strategy of the IRD, a secretive postwar subsection of the Foreign Office, was to counter the blizzard of propaganda issuing from Moscow and Beijing
It was drug addiction that killed for Elvis, not his greedy manager
‘Colonel’ Tom Parker may have struck a hard bargain to fund his compulsive gambling habit, but his devotion to Presley was total, says Peter Guralnick
Four legs good, two legs bad – the philosophy of Gerald Durrell
From a young man determined to protect the world’s vulnerable species, Durrell became in middle age someone who loathed the species of which he was a member
Fast and furious: America Fantastica, by Tim O’Brien, reviewed
As the avalanche of lies issuing from the White House morphs into the pandemic, Covid becomes in an engine of justice in this rollicking satire on Trumpworld
Wall Street madness
‘I don’t trust fiction,’ the famous author told me, both of us several glasses to the good. ‘It contains too…
What’s wrong with Hillary
A Trump vs Clinton tussle for the US presidency is now likely. She can’t be that bad . . . can she?
