Volume 121 Issue 6 November/December 2006

Cover Stories

Future Perfect: the transhumanist quest to defeat death: Transhumanists would like to cheat death and redesign genes. But Anita Silvers is not sure that would be wise

End Game: Deaf becomes him: You'll have to speak up for Laurie Taylor
Diary: Putting on the God helmet: Playright and director Mick Gordon describes how he went about creating religious voices for his new play

Moral maze: Platitudes and peacekeepers are not enough for Darfur, argues Stephen Eric Bronner
Slapstick and pratfalls: Laurie Taylor interviews John Mortimer: John Mortimer tells Laurie Taylor why old age is a farce
Peace Warriors: Ron Dudai meets the men of violence who have changed their minds
Ripped from their lives: When Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, Dorothea Lang was commissioned to document their removal. Linda Gordon unearths the hidden portraits of a people dispossessed
Bertrand Russell in Busota: Caspar Melville introduces our appeal to help secular education in Uganda
Heaven scent?: As the long awaited film version of Patrick Süskind's celebrated novel is released in the UK, Sally Feldman sniffs out the sacred and profane promise of perfume
What’s an infidel?: Jonathan Rée consults the latest humanist dictionary

News hounded: A decade of al-Jazeera: Naomi Sakr looks at 10 years of al-Jazeera
Thinker: David Hume: Julian Baggini celebrates the pragmatic genius of David Hume
Kids united: Northern Ireland's integrated education movement holds lessons for the faith school debate, says Gary Kent
Infantile disorder: Michael Bywater won't be joining the new atheists

Debating Humanism by Dolan Cummings (eds): Nick Cohen reads between the lines
The Many Faces of God: Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine by Jeremy Campbell: Michael Binyon seeks the face of God
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Geroges Bataille: Daniel Miller says it's all just so surreal
Non-Violence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky: AC Grayling explores the history of non-violence
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi with Leonardo de Benedetti: Stan Cohen on Primo Levi's report from the death camps
The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion by EO Wilson: Jonathan Derbyshire wonders if religion and science can get along