Culture

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This by Jim Holt

Natalie Haynes is not amused by a new study of humour

Jenny Bunker is at ease with a secular conscience

Laurie Taylor tries a bit of continental drift

From interior designer to poet of the grotesque – Owen Hatherley traces the evolution of a tortured artistic humanist

In his new book, New Humanist cartoonist Martin Rowson sums up the history, and future, of the world in one word

That’s the philosophy of a unique Muslim sect. Richard Dowden traces its spread across the diaspora

Edna Fernandes, author of The Last Jews of Kerala, responds to Ben Rich's criticism of her book in the July/August issue of New Humanist

Twenty-five years after his first Edinburgh appearance, Arnold Brown's hoping to become an overnight sensation

In deepest Scandinavia, Keith Kahn-Harris discovers social democratic Satanism

Ben Rich misses the last Jews of Kerala