School’s out
After six glorious (and chaotic) years, the final Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People shows take place in December 2013. Creator Robin Ince explains why it's time for a…
Culture
“I suppose this is some kind of masterpiece”: how a prize-winning novel was rejected by the publishing industry
An interview with Eimear McBride, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Playing the apocalypse: video games and religion
It may come as a surprise to those opposed to "soul-destroying" violent video games to find that some of the most violent ones are far from diabolical.
Review: Art Under Attack, Tate Britain
Tate Britain’s history of physical attacks on art in this country begins in the sixteenth century with the Reformation. There is nothing, for instance, about what happened to all the…
Cult of Cartoonists
Not satisfied by the religions on offer, Sam Mills decides to create another cult of her own. Illustrations by Ralph Steadman
Book review: A Girl is a Half Formed Thing
Toby Lichtig reviews Eimear McBride's debut novel
ABBA member calls for less religion in the world
Bjӧrn Ulvaeus is right to praise secularism - but his analysis of global politics leaves something to be desired.
Book review: An Atheist in the Foxhole
Andrew Mueller on the confessions of a Fox mole
A sympathetic gaze
George Eliot is not only a great novelist but a pioneer of a serious, and underappreciated, approach to the meaning of religious belief, says Sarah Ditum
Book review: MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
The conclusion of her post-apocalyptic trilogy confirms that Atwood is one of our finest living writers, says Craig Purshouse