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• The New Old World by Perry Anderson

  Stephen Howe on Perry Anderson's monumental analysis of Europe

• Aura & out

  Laurie Taylor balances his chakras

• Brain drain

  Laurie Taylor does some thinking aloud

• Logicomix: An Epic Search for the Truth by Apostolous Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou

  Marcus Chown enjoys a graphic maths lesson

• Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano

  Andreas Campomar surveys the 20th century with a Uruguayan master

• Testament by Jean Meslier

  Colin Brewer admires the last testament of an atheist priest

• Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne

  Max Houghton on stunning new photographs of America's state asylums

• Going gentle

  A series of new care centres shows modern architecture rediscovering its humanity. Ken Worpole takes the tour

• Fair game?

  350 million do it regularly. It offers levels of complexity and human interaction beyond any other art form. We can’t continue to ignore the cultural impact of online gaming, says Michael Bywater

• Film review: The Book of Eli & The Road

  Fred Rowson tours the wasted landscape of two new versions of the end of the world