Book review: The Immortalisation Commission by John Gray
Owen Hatherley tires of the same old song
Culture
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
Book review: Justice for Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
Conor Gearty takes a tour round Ronald Dworkin's remarkable mind
Book review: 33 Revolutions Per Minute by Dorian Lynskey
Andrew Mueller has fun with an intelligent history of protest songs
Blood and guts
Dublin Science Gallery’s latest exhibition Visceral crosses the boundaries between art and biology. Owen Hatherley pays a stomach-churning visit
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