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
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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
Fairest of them all
Each retelling of Snow White holds a mirror up to contemporary attitudes to women. Sally Feldman ventures into the woods to find out more
Racing the Popemobile
Laurie Taylor beats the Pontiff
Who wants to live for ever?
Thinking machines, eternal life, space colonisation, neon bunnies – no, not science fiction but soon-to-be-realised science fact, according to a new generation of futurologists. But who are they, and can…
Q&A: Iain Banks
The author of 26 literary and science fiction novels, Iain Banks is a bestseller across two genres. New Humanist interrupted his writing to probe his views on life and the…
Still reaching: New Humanist interviews John Amaechi
He’s played basketball at the highest level and was the first major league sportsman in America to come out as gay. Now he’s a psychologist, an OBE and an outspoken…