Paul Sims speaks to Marc Headley, the Scientology escapee now revealing what life is really like on the inside
Elizabeth Wilson reviews two new books on how to revive feminism
Michail Ryklin sits in on a Russian censorship trial
The American sociologist Manning Marable, who died in April 2011, was one of his country's most acute social analysts. In this interview from 2009 he talks to editor Caspar Melville about race, Katrina and the prospects of the first black President
Self-censorship is handing victory to the extremists, says Sherry Jones
Comedian Maureen Younger is unimpressed by the return of the rape joke
Is marrying close relations harmful? Charles Darwin, anxious about his own family inbreeding, applied his scientific rigour to find out the truth. Adam Kuper reveals all
Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
Newton Emerson has the real story behind Ireland’s new blasphemy law
Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference