Book review: Learning to Live: Philosophy for Beginners by Luc Ferry
AC Grayling learns to live without God
Culture
Banned: the hidden censorship of children’s books
Tibet, sausages and masturbating mice – as Banned Book Week begins, Anne Rooney explores the hidden restrictions on what your children read
Time is money
Laurie Taylor keeps his meter running
The Sun at night
The 'Super-K' detector is built 3,000 feet down in a mine beneath Hida in Japan. This is one of its most famous images. Marcus Chown explains
Film review: The Last Exorcism
This horror mockumentary is both charming and frightening, says Fred Rowson. But didn't somebody already do an exorcism movie?
Mint on the breath
A corrupt priest, an abused child, a knife. The dreadful consequences of clerical child abuse unfold in a specially written short story by Mark Say
Q&A: Marilynne Robinson
She has won the Pulitzer and Orange prizes for her fiction, and been called the greatest writer of prose in the English language. With her new book she enters the…
It’s all just words
Blasphemer, failure, hypocrite, comedian – Stewart Lee tells Caspar Melville why he’s so offensive
Diary: Giordano Bruno, my hero
Stephanie Merritt reveals why she made the Renaissance monk her leading man
Book review: Raising Dust by Nicholas Rowe
This study of Palestinian dance provides a rare insight into the lives of the region's people, says Andrew Mueller