Join New Humanist‘s assistant editor Samira Shackle at the Barbican’s Curve Gallery on 19 May, for a talk on “Pakistan,memory and place”, to mark the opening of the award-winning artist…
A cultural history of 1956 shows how this single year helped define an era.
A resurgence in nature writing offers secular transcendence. But are we being led up the garden path?
Two recent TV comedies conjure emotionally rich and intimate worlds out of everyday experience.
Two books examine the recent craze for consumable nostalgia.
People who mourned David Bowie online were condemned for being self-indulgent, but shared rituals matter.
Each film and TV race controversy shows that we are nowhere near a “post-racial” society.
The myth of human nature; crime at the Vatican; whatever happened to the Loch Ness monster?; Shappi Khorsandi on life without religion; and more...
Join New Humanist contributors Owen Hatherley and Douglas Murphy in conversation as they seek to explode the distortions of history that obscure our present and future in their respective new…
Its pretensions to a "scientific" experiment long since forgotten, Big Brother shows us how trapped we are in celebrity culture.