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• Laughs around the world

  No matter where you're from, humour is the international language, says Natalie Haynes

• Facebook knows I'm an atheist

  Social networkers are broadcasting their unbelief all over the web, says Bill Thompson. And in doing so they might just help raise the profile of atheism.

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr

  Bill Thompson is excited by the digital revolution

• The Happiest Man in the World by Alec Wilkinson

  Michael Bywater is in awe of Poppa Neutrino

• African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou

  Natalie Haynes is unimpressed by an African murder mystery

• Villages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias by Gillian Darley

  Ken Worpole visits utopian villages with Gillian Darley

• Death at Intervals by José Saramago

  Philip Womack admires another fable from Nobel Laureate José Saramago

• Counterknowledge by Damian Thomson

  AC Grayling reviews a Catholic attack on nonsense

• Capture the moment

  Truth, immediacy, humanity – Peter Hamilton celebrates the work of two major photographers

• Watching David Attenborough: Laurie Taylor talks to the renowned naturalist

  Laurie Taylor turns the microscope on to the man who’s brought us life on earth, in the freezer, under the oceans and in the undergrowth