Not mockery but twisted devotion. Aaron Rosen enjoys Michael Landy's crack-pot saints at the National Gallery
The people of Jharia struggle to live on top of a toxic open cast mine that is permanently ablaze. Words & Images Isabell Zipfel
Inhumane doctors in a conformist system. Theodore Dalrymple reviews a satire of the NHS.
Warner Bros have set up a special website with advice on how preachers can use Man of Steel film to spread the Biblical message
The Scottish novelist, who has died aged 59, was one of our greatest writers of science fiction, says Francis Spufford
More than 30 years after it started, is Christian metal still a thriving underground scene or a decaying corpse? Keith Kahn-Harris goes looking for signs of life amongst the devout undead
The operatic canon, and Wagner in particular, is saturated with religious imagery that can be incomprehensible and off-putting to a modern audience. But that doesn't mean secularists should shun them, says Dale DeBakcsy
Laurie Taylor feels the un-spontaneous love
Sam Geall enjoys a strange and darkly funny debut about life in the new China
Edmund Clark's eerily mundane collection of photographs and documents reveals the sinister reality of suspected terrorists confined without trial in suburbia