Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais on his new shows, shock comedy and why God loves him really
Culture
Quiz: Come on, you’ve urn-ed it
It's pot luck for bankers' bonuses with New Humanist quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Book review: The Matter With Us by John Rawles
Richard Norman explores the matter of the human predicament
Film review: The Tree of Life
Terence Malik’s fifth film could do with a dose of Dirty Harry says Fred Rowson
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
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