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Building the future

The visionaries of the post-war era aimed to revolutionise urban living. Is it time we rediscovered their utopian spirit? asks Douglas Murphy

Adam Curtis images

Fail better

The films of Adam Curtis tell the histories of utopian ideas gone disastrously wrong. So why does he think we need more of them? Daniel Trilling meets the acclaimed documentary…

Zealot by Reza Aslan

Book review: Zealot by Reza Aslan

This article is from the Spring 2014 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. Reza Aslan was the author granted a priceless publicity gift by Fox News in…

Dissident Gardens

Here come the bohemians

Jonathan Lethem has become the leading American novelist of his generation by chronicling the hopes and failures of the Left, writes Fatema Ahmed

How I got to sit in the famous seat

How I got to sit in the famous seat

This article is from the Spring 2014 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. Whoever you support, football is about loss, and how you cope with it. Not…

Dieric Bouts: The Entombment

People power

The history of Western art tells a story of how humans came to think of themselves as beings who could shape the world

Should Hamlet travel to North Korea?

Should Hamlet travel to North Korea?

Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells the story of a young prince who avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing the uncle who took his place as monarch. Its double-crossing…

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