They stand by the sea in Lindisfarne. You will find them in the valleys of the sky, Slovenian gorges, on the peaks of Chamonix, the Barbados beaches, national parks, American and Australian streams. Stacks of stones, miniature monuments made by enraptured visitors and photographed for posterity are tiny tributes to [...]

“Madonna is dead?”my daughter recently asked me while we were dancing like idiots in the kitchen to Vogue. After spending a few months inoculating my child with Madonna’s back catalogue, I realized I hadn’t told her anything about the woman herself. My daughter is still young enough to have no [...]