Diary of a Bad Year by JM Coetzee
Stan Cohen reviews JM Coetzee's latest
Politics & Conflict
Forced labour
200 years since it was abolished, slavery is not only still happening, reports Rahila Gupta, it’s actually increasing all over the world
Finger on the trigger
If Pakistan falls, Jihadis will have the bomb. Maruf Khwaja warns of his country’s deepening crisis
Degrees of separation
This year, a record number of student activists have been found guilty of terrorist crimes. As the new academic year begins, Paul Sims assesses how universities are dealing with the…
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi with Leonardo de Benedetti
Stan Cohen on Primo Levi's report from the death camps
Moral maze
Platitudes and peacekeepers are not enough for Darfur, argues Stephen Eric Bronner
Ripped from their lives
When Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, Dorothea Lang was commissioned to document their removal. Linda Gordon unearths the hidden portraits of a people dispossessed
Kids united
Northern Ireland's integrated education movement holds lessons for the faith school debate, says Gary Kent
We’re all humanists now
A new opinion poll shows that the majority of British people trust science more than religion and do not base their morality on religious belief. Andrew Copson reports
Sexual cleansing
Islamist death squads in Iraq are targeting gays and lesbians, reports Peter Tatchell