What is it like to be an African-American atheist
A short documentary explores the experience of being an atheist in a society that equates blackness with being a believer
Culture
What Norwich City taught me about life
This piece is from the Winter 2013 edition of New Humanist. Subscribe here. Whenever I’m asked for a short biography, for a talk or a panel appearance, I always send…
Out of the ashes
A striking new documentary about Bosnia asks what happens to ordinary people when their lives are torn apart by war
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…
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