Growing up godless
“Should you tell your four-year-old you believe we are all alone in a godless universe? My Dad did, and I turned out OK. Discounting the fact I am a comedian..."…
Culture
Film review: Inception
Christopher Nolan has created a rare thing – an intelligent summer blockbuster. If only the details were as inspiring as the ideas, says Fred Rowson
Book review: Neoconservatism by Justin Vaisse
Anatol Lieven assesses the past and future of an idea
Book review: In Office Hours by Lucy Kellaway
Winston Fletcher undresses the office affair
Call of the wild
The useless, the tragic, the deranged. Herzog’s subject is always the human, says Fred Rowson
The listeners
Les Back on the ordinary virtues of paying attention
Film review: Lourdes
Behind its restrained seriousness, this dramatisation of a disabled woman's pilgrimage has a vicious sense of humour, says Fred Rowson
Book Review: The Loser Letters by Mary Eberstadt
Andrew Mueller enjoys the end of a leaden satire of New Atheism
Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Louise Foxcroft on the oddest biography ever
Diary: Best of the worst
There are no bad books, just special ones says Robin Ince