1. What non-believers can learn from St Augustine

According to Rowan Williams, St Augustine does not deserve his bad reputation as a dogmatic braggart. Is he right? Jonathan Rée explores.

2. Greece's songs of love and loss

In Greece, writes Yiannis Baboulias, a new generation is revisiting its folk music tradition to find new ways of expressing its current troubles.

3. The quiet radicalism of Years & Years

Transcending weary clichés about divas and “gay pop”, acclaimed new band Years & Years articulate what it is to be young and gay, writes Alex Macpherson.

4. Inside the detention industry

Despite the growth of detention centres for refugees and migrants, they remain shrouded in secrecy. Two insiders speak tp Phil Miller.

5. How Russia fell back in love with Stalin

In modern Russia, religious revivalism has combined with nostalgia for the Soviet period in surprising ways. Mark Bennetts reports.

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