The Spring 2015 issue of New Humanist is on sale now in High St branches of WH Smith and selected independent newsagents around the UK.
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Highlights include:
- An essay by Paul Mason arguing that we need to rethink our ideas about human character in the age of social media:
“We have to find ways of depicting the full person: the tweets, the memes, the text messages, her Instagram photos, the filter she uses on her Instagram photos; what they mean. Then we have to adjust the format of narrative to take account of the fact that she is probably producing a very interesting narrative of her own, every second she is awake.”
- Martin Rowson responds to the Paris attacks. (Read our Spring 2015 editorial here.)
- Suzanne Moore looks ahead to the UK elections
- Marc Bennetts charts the rise of sorcerers and faith healers in Russia
- Marcus Chown explains how scientific accident led to the discovery of the Big Bang's afterglow
- Samira Shackle interviews Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about freedom and imagination in Iran and the US
- Have world religions been the cause of violence through the ages? Jonathan Rée examines the evidence
- Reni Eddo-Lodge on Selma and the history of black British activism
- In a Word, a new regular column by Michael Rosen on the uses and abuses of language
- The death of Jimmy Mubenga, killed during an attempt to deport him from the UK, raises disturbing questions about racism and justice, writes Lara Pawson
- Fatema Ahmed explores the work of enigmatic Italian writer Elena Ferrante
- Award-winning photojournalist Paul Lowe discusses the purpose of war photography
- Broadchurch, The Missing, The Leftovers: Mark Fisher on television’s recent depictions of loss and mourning
- Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch reveals how his sexuality barred him from a career in the Church
- PLUS: Book reviews; new poems by Alan Brownjohn and others; a new cryptic crossword; and Laurie Taylor's Endgame column
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