But that idea is weakened by a huge, literal-minded production.

NEWYORKER: Battle Stations

In a revealing aside on the infamous Cottingley fairy photographs, taken by two young girls (one of whom worked in a photographer's shop retouching prints), she suggests that it may well have been the literal-minded rationalism of Conan Doyle and his ilk that was the problem.

ECONOMIST: Imagining the soul