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
Culture
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
Diary
Comedian Robin Ince is blinded by science
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
A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology
Lewis Wolpert learns the facts of life from plants