Blood and guts
Dublin Science Gallery’s latest exhibition Visceral crosses the boundaries between art and biology. Owen Hatherley pays a stomach-churning visit
Culture
Film review: Hereafter
In taking on the afterlife, Clint Eastwood delivers a trite ghost story that is desperate to be taken seriously, finds Fred Rowson
Book review: Apocalypse for Beginners by Nicolas Dickner
Philip Womack is disappointed by the end of the world
Book review: The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
Do we have innate religious tendencies? Jake Wallis Simons turns to a new book to find out
Cold reading
Comic book legend Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, kindly allowed us to run this chilling rationalist short story from his excellent magazine, Dodgem Logic. Lock the…
The Mild One
Laurie Taylor goes hell for leather
Film review: Of Gods and Men
This depiction of the last days of seven monks murdered by extremists has been widely celebrated, but its questionable take on Christian devotion is ultimately dissatisfying, says Fred Rowson
Quite contrary: inside the Battle of Ideas
The associates of the Institute of Ideas certainly have a talent for getting noticed. But is there more to them than hollow liberal-baiting? asks Richard Wilson
Hot type
Andrew Mueller revels in the vituperative opinions of HL Mencken
Book review: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
Ophelia Benson finds Karen Armstrong's spiritual manifesto lacking in spirit and laughs