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• How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov

  Winston Fletcher takes on Kasparov, and wins

• Karoo by Steve Tesich

  Michael Bywater rediscovers a masterly comic tragedy

• Naughty but nice

  Contemporary pornography is a hideous distortion of the joys of sex. Yet, argues Nina Power, it could all have been so different

• What’s an infidel?

  Jonathan Rée consults the latest humanist dictionary

• Infantile disorder

  Michael Bywater won't be joining the new atheists

• News hounded: A decade of al-Jazeera

  Naomi Sakr looks at 10 years of al-Jazeera

• Diary: Putting on the God helmet

  Playright and director Mick Gordon describes how he went about creating religious voices for his new play

• Secret openings

  You don't have to be religious to experience inexplicable moments of epiphany, argues Laurie Taylor

• Diary

  Comedian Robin Ince is blinded by science

• End Game: Heard this one?

  Laurie Taylor is stuck on repeat