Ways of seeing John Berger
Marxist, novelist, art historian, farmer, philosopher, artist, object of reverance, provocateur: Laurie Taylor looks at the 85-year-old polymath from every angle
Culture
The wrong note
In which Laurie Taylor takes up a new hobby
Book review: Crooked Talk by Jonathon Green
Michael Bywater finds that Jonathon Green is the aceman of lexicographers, and that's no honey-fuggle
Book review: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns
Richard Wilson is impressed by a new book on the collapse of the Congo
New Humanist Cartoons July August 2011
Cartoons from the July?August issue of new Humanist magazine
Slayer of religion
For critic James Wood the novel offers an antidote to unforgiving certainties, sacred and profane. Matthew Adams meets him
Q&A: Marcus Brigstocke
Between the arrogant believers and the smug atheists stands a lone comic, with only a successful career for comfort.
God & Devil: Country Songs
Five tracks about God, and five about the Devil. Selected by Andrew Mueller
Book review: How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Jenny Bunker enjoys Caitlin Moran's flippant feminism
Different angle
Andrew West's photos of the Mustard Seed Secular School, Uganda