Philip Pullman's essay on reading, writing, and the imagination was the cover feature of our Winter issue.
2. Charlie Brooker: Tea and empathy
In another feature from our Winter issue, Ariane Sherine meets Charlie Brooker. Known as a savagely funny satirist who takes aim at modern irrationality, in person, he’s a rather more gentle soul.
3. Imagine... a world without work
For many people, jobs are boring, low-paid, humiliating and increasingly scarce. New Humanist asks three young writers: what if we just did away with them?
4. Boys, keep out! A feminist history of the handbag
No-nonsense rationalists might sneer at the passion for women’s handbags, but they began as a way of making men obsolete, writes Sally Feldman.
5. Sins of the fathers: child sex abuse in the Catholic Church
Francis Beckett reviews two new books which highlight the horrific scale of child sex abuse within Catholic institutions in Britain.
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For Decembers's top long-reads, click here.
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