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…
Culture
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
Atheism in Technicolor
Dale DeBakcsy watches non-belief come of age at San Francisco's Atheist Film Festival
Humanism for a globalised world
Ten years after his death, Edward Said’s work remains a guide for how to hold universal principles in increasingly diverse societies
Ten reasons why you should read the relaunched New Humanist
** UK readers can take up our special introductory offer and subscribe to New Humanist for just £1! (overseas readers click here) ** Our very own New Humanist, one of…
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…
“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…