Book review: The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
The latest novel from "collapsed Catholic" Colm Tóibín – a fictionalised account of the "crochety old widow" Mary – confirms him to be the greatest living writer in English, says…
Culture
Book review: Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive edited by Ben Thompson
Andrew Mueller enjoys the peevish outrage of the inadvertently hilarious moral crusader Mary Whitehouse
Q&A: Labi Siffre
During his 50-year career singer-songwriter Labi Siffre has played Soho jazz clubs, been covered by Madness and Kenny Rogers, sampled by Dr Dre and Kanye West and gained global status…
Christmas: an atheist survival guide
Myra Zepf's hints for a happy humanist holiday
Book review: Where Have You Been? by Joseph O’Connor
Philip Womack revels in the short stories of Joseph O'Connor
Talking ’bout a revolution
With the whiff of rebellion again in the air, the work of Victor Serge is being rediscovered. Not before time, says Owen Hatherley
Skin deep
Laurie Taylor springs a leak
Book review: You must change your life by Peter Sloterdijk
Jonathan Rée enjoys the latest performance by 'the Lady Gaga of philosophy'
Book Review: The Atheist’s Primer by Michael Palmer
If you're looking for a handy arsenal of arguments against religion this is the book for you, says Michael Bywater
You can’t talk people out of religion
Jacques Berlinerblau responds to Kenan Malik’s review of his book.