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...
Culture
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…
The house that fame built: Celebrity Big Brother
Its pretensions to a "scientific" experiment long since forgotten, Big Brother shows us how trapped we are in celebrity culture.
Reimagining John Lennon
Kevin Barry's inventive novel Beatlebone makes the singer someone worth reading about again.
We are here because you were there: a retrospective of black British art
Holding an exhibition that celebrates black British art at the Guildhall, with its colonial legacy, is an act akin to resistance
The Winter 2015 New Humanist is out now!
Should machines replicate people?; What history tells us about refugees; Mary Beard on Ancient Rome; the myth of "pure" religion; what happens when the Sun goes out; and more...
Mark Doty’s triumphal homecoming
A new collection from Doty, the living poet who has arguably done most to find a way of writing about gay urban life.
Ice tennis, eel-pulling, and Italian cat-headbutting: a history of forgotten sports
As a new book reminds us, sport is a useful barometer of moral and social progress.
Ukraine’s generation without protection
The talented young director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy is charting Ukraine’s turbulent recent history.
The lessons of online disgrace
Jon Ronson's new book shows that everyone is fair game.