Dreaming big
Josie Long’s charm and energy have established her as one of our funniest stand-ups. Now she wants to change the world. Interview by Ariane Sherine
Culture
Fading privilege: Girls
HBO’s hit comedy-drama Girls depicts a white, educated middle-class America in the midst of its own demise, writes Mark Fisher
Silence is gruesome
This article is from the Spring 2014 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. No doubt all long-term jobs carry some sort of physical or psychological risk, the…
Win tickets to this year’s How the Light Gets In festival
How the Light Gets In, the world’s largest philosophy festival, returns this year with a glittering programme of debates, talks, comedy and live music – including New Humanist’s commissioning editor…
Book review: Sonic Wonderland by Trevor Cox
This article is from the Spring 2014 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. A few years ago, while holidaying in Kent, my partner and I visited an…
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
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…
Book review: The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth
If your Nordic knowledge is limited to ABBA, snow and Vikings, read this book, says Anna Vesterinen
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…
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