Book review: You must change your life by Peter Sloterdijk
Jonathan Rée enjoys the latest performance by 'the Lady Gaga of philosophy'
Culture
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.
Book Review: How to Be Secular by Jacques Berlinerblau
Why is secularism a toxic word in the US, and can it be rehabilitated? Kenan Malik on a new book by American academic Jacques Berlinerblau, which promises to do just…
Inspired by witch trials
Musician Darren Hayman on the making of his new album, The Violence
Book review: Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
In his new book, the Bad Science author Ben Goldacre takes on the faulty practices of the pharmaceutical industry. Is it a battle he can win? asks Martin Robbins
Q&A: Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts’ career as a science broadcaster has flourished with a series of popular documentaries like The Incredible Human Journey, Are We Still Evolving? and Prehistoric Autopsy. She is also…
A reasonable life
Matthew Adams gets inside the mind of the President of the Rationalist Association, Sir Jonathan Miller
Swan Song
Laurie Taylor tries the ballet
Ballads of unsuccess
A new collection confirms James Fenton as one of our very best poets. Matthew Adams meets him