Francis Beckett reviews two books telling the inside story of the implosion of New Labour
AC Grayling learns to live without God
Tibet, sausages and masturbating mice – as Banned Book Week begins, Anne Rooney explores the hidden restrictions on what your children read
Laurie Taylor keeps his meter running
The 'Super-K' detector is built 3,000 feet down in a mine beneath Hida in Japan. This is one of its most famous images. Marcus Chown explains
This horror mockumentary is both charming and frightening, says Fred Rowson. But didn't somebody already do an exorcism movie?
A corrupt priest, an abused child, a knife. The dreadful consequences of clerical child abuse unfold in a specially written short story by Mark Say
She has won the Pulitzer and Orange prizes for her fiction, and been called the greatest writer of prose in the English language. With her new book she enters the God debate. We talk to Marilynne Robinson, author of Absence of Mind
Blasphemer, failure, hypocrite, comedian – Stewart Lee tells Caspar Melville why he’s so offensive
Stephanie Merritt reveals why she made the Renaissance monk her leading man