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…
Culture
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
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
Brenda Maddox visits the grubby side of Georgian London with Dan Cruickshank
This is How by MJ Hyland
Philip Womack on the terse sophistication of novelist MJ Hyland
What’s the Worst that Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate by Greg Craven
Simon Singh on a rational look at climate change