With its cast of blood-thirsty mullahs, equivocating politicians, apologetic liberals and artists requiring police protection, Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the fatwa years couldn’t be more timely, says Kenan Malik
Underestimate the Women's Institute at your peril, says Sally Feldman
Laurie Taylor, Chair of the Rationalist Association, remembers his fellow trustee, who died on 4 September 2012
Hugh Pearman enjoys a constructive history of architecture
Alom Shaha admires the honesty of a former Islamist
As AC Grayling’s New College of the Humanities enrols its first intake, Caspar Melville asks our most prominent humanist what prompted his most controversial venture
Mark Say on Anouk Markovits' novel about Orthodox Judaism
Moheb Costandi on the latest big idea in neuroscience
Philip Womack experiments with the new Ben Marcus novel
The fad for using science to explain everything is misguided and dangerous, says Massimo Pigliucci