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• The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong

  Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser on why you should read the Bible

• Quack science

  Award-winning crime writer Christopher Brookmyre explains why his latest book is dedicated to Dawkins, Randi and the debunkers of pseudo-science

• Native son

  175 years after the death of Scotland’s most celebrated novelist, Murray Pittock asks if Walter Scott was an enemy of the Enlightenment, or its champion

• End Game: Faking it

  Laurie Taylor comes clean

• God slot

  Radio 4's Thought for the Day has for four decades infuriated humanists with its daily dose of religious platitudes. But, argues David Hendy, it could be a force for freedom

• Out of this world

  Why is fantasy taking over our TV screens? Natalie Haynes unravels a mystery

• Only joking

  Introducing our recent public debate on humour at London’s Royal Society of Arts, Laurie Taylor discovered that laughter can be a serious business

• End Game: Deaf becomes him

  You'll have to speak up for Laurie Taylor

• The Many Faces of God: Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine by Jeremy Campbell

  Michael Binyon seeks the face of God

• The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Geroges Bataille

  Daniel Miller says it's all just so surreal