Whatever happened to the Loch Ness monster?
Today, 80 years after Nessie was first “sighted”, the band of believers in this mythical creature is dwindling.
Culture
Pakistan, Memory and Place: Samira Shackle at the Barbican on 19 May
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…
1956: A year to remember
A cultural history of 1956 shows how this single year helped define an era.
The cult of nature writing
A resurgence in nature writing offers secular transcendence. But are we being led up the garden path?
Peter Kay and the myth of the ordinary: Cradle to Grave
Two recent TV comedies conjure emotionally rich and intimate worlds out of everyday experience.
The rise of the nostalgia industry
Two books examine the recent craze for consumable nostalgia.
The authenticity of online grief
People who mourned David Bowie online were condemned for being self-indulgent, but shared rituals matter.
The #OscarsSoWhite debate raises the question of who gets to be human
Each film and TV race controversy shows that we are nowhere near a “post-racial” society.
The Spring 2016 New Humanist is out now!
The myth of human nature; crime at the Vatican; whatever happened to the Loch Ness monster?; Shappi Khorsandi on life without religion; and more...
Memories of the future: Owen Hatherley and Douglas Murphy in conversation
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…