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• Book review: What WH Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith

• Adding up with The Simpsons

  Simon Singh is one of our best science writers, but a gruelling libel battle derailed his career. Now, he tells Paul Sims, he’s back to doing what he loves

• Girls can't do physics? How schools are failing to tackle gender stereotypes

  A new report suggests that stereotypes persist, writes Samira Shackle

• Atheism in Technicolor

  Dale DeBakcsy watches non-belief come of age at San Francisco's Atheist Film Festival

• Humanism for a globalised world

  Ten years after his death, Edward Said’s work remains a guide for how to hold universal principles in increasingly diverse societies

• Ten reasons why you should read the relaunched New Humanist

• School's out

  After six glorious (and chaotic) years, the final Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People shows take place in December 2013. Creator Robin Ince explains why it's time for a change

• "I suppose this is some kind of masterpiece": how a prize-winning novel was rejected by the publishing industry

  An interview with Eimear McBride, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

• Playing the apocalypse: video games and religion

  It may come as a surprise to those opposed to "soul-destroying" violent video games to find that some of the most violent ones are far from diabolical.

• Review: Art Under Attack, Tate Britain