Book review: Pauperland by Jeremy Seabrook
This article is a preview from the Winter 2013 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. In Pauperland Jeremy Seabrook sensitively chronicles attitudes towards the poor from the…
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Book review: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
This article is a preview from the Winter 2013 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. How does a cataclysmic event play out across generations of one family?…
Danger zone
Centuries of fear and loathing mean the vagina remains taboo. Can a new generation of feminist writers rehabilitate this troublesome organ?
Not going to reach my telephone
We worry that new technology is ruining our ability to think – in fact, such fears have been around since the very invention of writing
The English visionary
For over forty years, Iain Sinclair’s work has combined obsessive myth-making with urban despair. But what do we know about him?
Beyond good and evil: Breaking Bad
By rejecting the moral certainties of most small-screen drama, Breaking Bad became the ultimate piece of atheist TV
Is Jesus history’s biggest figure?
Christ has topped of a list of history's most significant people. The study may be imperfect, but it's a great basis for an argument, says Paul Sims
Book review: What WH Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
This article is a preview from the Winter 2013 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. Alexander McCall Smith is not wrong when he says, in his new…
Adding up with The Simpsons
Simon Singh is one of our best science writers, but a gruelling libel battle derailed his career. Now, he tells Paul Sims, he’s back to doing what he loves
Girls can’t do physics? How schools are failing to tackle gender stereotypes
A new report suggests that stereotypes persist, writes Samira Shackle