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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

Cartoons from the July?August issue of new Humanist magazine

For critic James Wood the novel offers an antidote to unforgiving certainties, sacred and profane. Matthew Adams meets him

Between the arrogant believers and the smug atheists stands a lone comic, with only a successful career for comfort.

Five tracks about God, and five about the Devil. Selected by Andrew Mueller

Jenny Bunker enjoys Caitlin Moran's flippant feminism

Andrew West's photos of the Mustard Seed Secular School, Uganda

Les Back has some suggestions of which books not to take on vacation

Quizmaster Chris Maslanka challenges you to sidestep death and defeat the dreaded lurgy

Philip Womack is uninspired by a dystopian debut