Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism
Politics & Conflict
Whitewash
We have yet to see justice for the thousands of Irish women forced to work in the inhumane conditions of the Magdalen laundries, says Keith Porteous Wood
Faultline
From the Philippines to West Africa the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator, is a geographical frontline between Christianity and Islam. Eliza Griswold has…
What I owe the library
We can't do without our private places to read and think, says novelist Philip Pullman
Kitchen sink drama
On International Women's Day Sally Feldman asks is it a coincidence that women are being driven back into the home?
Count yourself out
Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort
Book review: 33 Revolutions Per Minute by Dorian Lynskey
Andrew Mueller has fun with an intelligent history of protest songs
“Dear God help me die standing”
As the wave of protest resurfaces in Iran, the desperate regime is setting Ninja thugs on the crowds and murdered activists are being claimed as state martyrs. Nasrin Alavi reports
It’s about Egypt not Islam
Mubarak has gone, now what? Mona Eltahawy has a message for those worrying about an Islamic take-over in Egypt
Film review: Of Gods and Men
This depiction of the last days of seven monks murdered by extremists has been widely celebrated, but its questionable take on Christian devotion is ultimately dissatisfying, says Fred Rowson