Stayin’ alive
Humans have invented an endless series of strategies to try and outwit the Grim Reaper. Stephen Cave explores our fascination with immortality
Culture
Top Six: Jesus Sightings
If the Lord moves in mysterious ways, then his son moves in downright weird ones. Jesus Christ’s inexplicable predilection for appearing in the snack foods of small-town America has become…
Our man in Marseille
In his uncategorisable writing and brilliant television essays Jonathan Meades is forever peering into the nooks and crannies of our absurd age. Matthew Adams runs him to ground in his…
Book review: The Last Holiday by Gil Scott-Heron
His posthumous memoir is just the last of the many disapointments of the great Gil Scott-Heron, says Caspar Melville
The triumph of Rushdie’s censors
The response to the latest threats against Salman Rushdie shows that we have become dangerously accustomed to the erosion of free speech, says Kenan Malik
Vicars, vicars everywhere
An issue that's packed with priests
Quiz: Boggles goes around
A perplexing plane puzzle from Quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Looking for Transwonderland by Noo Saro-Wiwa
Natalie Haynes enjoys a Nigerian travelogue
Book review: Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
Nina Power puzzles over a heavyweight intellectual partnership
Book review: Rainbow Pie: A memoir of redneck America
Owen Jones enjoys a melancholy protrait of America's underclass