Surreal estate
Ralph Steadman revisits the city of lost angels
Culture
Today’s lesson
Reading the Bible did not awaken Michael Bywater's faith. But it did move him. Don’t tell Dawkins
Miles of sex
Laurie Taylor talks dirty
Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism
Quiz: No eggs/pence spared
Break a few eggs and price up an omelette with quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Book review: The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
Brian Green's dizzying new book offers a window onto the cutting edge of theoretical physics. Marcus Chown goes in search of the multiverse
Book review: The Immortalisation Commission by John Gray
Owen Hatherley tires of the same old song
What I owe the library
We can't do without our private places to read and think, says novelist Philip Pullman
Space for laughs
As comedian Helen Keen’s Radio 4 series on the history of rocket science begins, she tells Matthew Adams why it’s a subject with room for the serious and the absurd
New Humanist Cartoons
A selection of cartoons from the current issue