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• The Science of Fiction

  What is science fiction, asks Bo Fowler

• Can reason hold her throne?

  Michael Levey speaks in support of reason

• Clash of faiths

  George Melly salutes 100 years of blasphemy

• The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon

  The Glorious Revolution was neither, says Michael Binyon

• The story so far: Laurie Taylor interviews Michael Frayn

  Counting, categorising, complexity. Michael Frayn offers Laurie Taylor his version of the human condition

• Party girl

  Imogen Edwards-Jones plots a new career path

• Eric, Eileen and Norah

  Newly discovered letters shed light on the inner life of Orwell’'s wife, writes Jenny Joseph

• Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Ebenezer Obadare on the latest novel from Africa's greatest living author

• Out of the shadows

  Toby Saul on how the paintings of Diego Velazquez changed our way of seeing

• Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster

  Nina Power deconstructs a contemporary parable