Michael Ignatieff and the redemptive power of consolation
The writer and historian Michael Ignatieff's new book, "On Consolation", asks whether the search for consolation has come to define the worth of human life.
Culture
Leaving Lviv
An Irish writer reflects on fleeing his home in Ukraine.
Gods of the green fields
Marcelo Bielsa, a manager once hailed as "God", has been sacked from Leeds United. When it comes to faith in football, the history of leadership at the club has lessons…
Will the cyborgs soon rise up?
Australian scientists have taught brain cells in a petri dish to play Pong. Is humanity doomed?
Talking to the future: New Humanist spring 2022 is out now
Out now – featuring Alice Bell on climate action gone wrong, Brett Scott on the war on cash, Semmi W. on biotech and stolen cells and Carl Rhodes on woke…
Book Review: Exhumation
Leena Dhingra's new book, which is part memoir, part history, explores the life and death of an Indian revolutionary.
A deadly formula
"Only Murders in the Building" is the latest TV show to be inspired by the podcast revolution.
Book review: The Best Catholics in the World
A new book traces the collapse of the moral and political authority of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
A study in failure
Thomas Bernhard’s bleak novels force us to confront the futility of intellectual life.
Arresting artwork
Under threat of persecution, artists in Pakistan are using their work to sow the seeds of change.