From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience Since 1975 by Mark Garnett
Stephen Howe is bored with apathy
Culture
Diary of a Bad Year by JM Coetzee
Stan Cohen reviews JM Coetzee's latest
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser on why you should read the Bible
Quack science
Award-winning crime writer Christopher Brookmyre explains why his latest book is dedicated to Dawkins, Randi and the debunkers of pseudo-science
Native son
175 years after the death of Scotland’s most celebrated novelist, Murray Pittock asks if Walter Scott was an enemy of the Enlightenment, or its champion
End Game: Faking it
Laurie Taylor comes clean
God slot
Radio 4's Thought for the Day has for four decades infuriated humanists with its daily dose of religious platitudes. But, argues David Hendy, it could be a force for freedom
Out of this world
Why is fantasy taking over our TV screens? Natalie Haynes unravels a mystery
Only joking
Introducing our recent public debate on humour at London’s Royal Society of Arts, Laurie Taylor discovered that laughter can be a serious business
End Game: Deaf becomes him
You'll have to speak up for Laurie Taylor