The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan
Stephen Howe on a new history of the Arabs
Culture
Crying out loud
Laurie Taylor meets national treasure Barry Cryer
Déjà vu, only worse
Michail Ryklin sits in on a Russian censorship trial
Praise Jshua
Surely Easter is the time of year when we should spare a thought for the Messiah's less successful competitors? Here's Richard Herring, from the November issue, on one who never…
Poem: The Playboy Calendar and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
How poet Martín Espada became a humanist
Back from the dead? Facilitated communication and the strange case of Rom Houben
In February the BBC reported that the Belgian man who appeared to be communicating after a 23-year coma wasn't. Sceptic Nicholas Pearson was on it for us back in November
Outside story
A new exhibition space, The Museum of Everything, features hundreds of works by ‘the untrained, unintentional and unseen creators of our modern world’. New Humanist goes inside
Our own worst enemy
Self-censorship is handing victory to the extremists, says Sherry Jones
Film review: Up
It's not quite Paradise Lost, but Pixar's latest is still a beautiful, three-dimensional, mess, says Fred Rowson
Con trick
Laurie Taylor feels a chilli in the air