Thrashing for Jesus, Rapping For Science
The god debate has infiltrated popular music. Dale DeBakcsy looks at how heavenly metal squares up to rationalist rap
Culture
Yes, Ann, I am having a laugh
In a recent television programme Ann Widdecombe denounced much contemporary comedy as anti-Christian and offensive. Balderdash, says Terri Murray, no ideas should be protected from satire
Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York November 7, 2008
Six graphic novels every humanist should read
There is a decades-long tradition of secular heroes battling religion in comic books and graphic novels. Dale DeBakcsy picks out his favourite godless superheroes
The cartoon war on sceptics
Some cartoons are telling kids that they have to choose to believe. Dale DeBakcsy tunes in to the animated assault on reason
Flaming swords & gossamer wings
Though belief in religion is on the wane, angels have never been more popular. Why’s that? asks Sally Feldman
Book review: Two novels by Donald Antrim
In republishing a brace of dark and quirky novels by American novellist Donald Antrim, Granta have unearthed a master of suburban gothic, finds Philip Womack
Q&A: Isy Suttie
We talk to the comedian, songwriter and actor Isy Suttie, who plays Mark’s kooky girlfriend Dobby in Channel 4’s Peep Show
Stone cold drunk
Laurie Taylor has a drinking problem
The shock of the old
There is nothing primitive, or cold, about the incredible objects on display at the British Museum’s Ice Age Art exhibition, finds Toby Saul