How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
Winston Fletcher takes on Kasparov, and wins
Culture
Karoo by Steve Tesich
Michael Bywater rediscovers a masterly comic tragedy
Naughty but nice
Contemporary pornography is a hideous distortion of the joys of sex. Yet, argues Nina Power, it could all have been so different
What’s an infidel?
Jonathan Rée consults the latest humanist dictionary
Infantile disorder
Michael Bywater won't be joining the new atheists
News hounded: A decade of al-Jazeera
Naomi Sakr looks at 10 years of al-Jazeera
Diary: Putting on the God helmet
Playright and director Mick Gordon describes how he went about creating religious voices for his new play
Secret openings
You don't have to be religious to experience inexplicable moments of epiphany, argues Laurie Taylor
End Game: Heard this one?
Laurie Taylor is stuck on repeat
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Jonathan Derbyshire stays up for a rendezvous with Haruki Murakami