Lessons unlearnt
With its cast of blood-thirsty mullahs, equivocating politicians, apologetic liberals and artists requiring police protection, Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the fatwa years couldn’t be more timely, says Kenan Malik
Culture
Jam & Jerusalem
Underestimate the Women's Institute at your peril, says Sally Feldman
No nonsense: remembering Winston Fletcher
Laurie Taylor, Chair of the Rationalist Association, remembers his fellow trustee, who died on 4 September 2012
Book review: Why We Build by Rowan Moore
Hugh Pearman enjoys a constructive history of architecture
Book review: Radical by Maajid Nawaz
Alom Shaha admires the honesty of a former Islamist
Saving our universities? New Humanist interviews AC Grayling
As AC Grayling’s New College of the Humanities enrols its first intake, Caspar Melville asks our most prominent humanist what prompted his most controversial venture
Book review: I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits
Mark Say on Anouk Markovits' novel about Orthodox Judaism
Book review: Connectome by Sebastian Seung
Moheb Costandi on the latest big idea in neuroscience
Book review: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
Philip Womack experiments with the new Ben Marcus novel
Science needs philosophy
The fad for using science to explain everything is misguided and dangerous, says Massimo Pigliucci