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  • Talking to the future: New Humanist spring 2022 is out now

    Out now – featuring Carl Rhodes on woke capitalism, Alice Bell on climate action gone wrong, Brett Scott on the war on cash and Semmi W. on biotech and stolen cells.

  • Book Review: Exhumation

    The life and death of Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra is explored in a new book.

  • A deadly formula

    Television adaptations of podcast series are increasingly popular. But do they work?

  • Book review: The Best Catholics in the World

    Beset by scandal, the authority of the Catholic Church in Ireland has all but collapsed, a new book argues.

  • A study in failure

    The Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard's books rally against intellectual culture.

  • Arresting artwork

    The human body has long been off-limits to Pakistani artists. But cultural norms are shifting.

  • Book review: The Wordhord

    A new book on the dominant language spoken in England between the 6th and 12th centuries reveals a treasure trove of surprise, intrigue and otherness.

  • Mary's war

    The Christian campaigner Mary Whitehouse went so far as to enlist the Queen in her bid to keep humanists off the airwaves.

  • Book review: Variations

    'Variations', a new collection of stories on sex, culture and radical politics, is Juliet Jacques' most mature and ambitious work to date.

  • Q&A: Claire Tomalin

    Claire Tomalin on her recent biography of H.G Wells, and the relationship he forged over a richly lived life.