Contents Winter 2013

regulars p. 7 Witness Dispatches on culture, science and politics from our correspondents p. 16 The Q+A Karima Bennoune p. 80 Community Our readers give their views on faith schools p. 81 Quiz Set by Chris Maslanka

COLUMNS

p. 5 Editor’s Note

Daniel Trilling p. 6 Cosmos Marcus Chown p. 15 Rituals Suzanne Moore p. 18 The Irrationalist

Karl Sharro p. 27 Apostasies I

Symeon Brown p. 31 Apostasies II Dina Mohammad p. 36 Apostasies III

Hari Sri p. 57 Apostasies IV

Simon Price p. 79 How to Watch

Football Juliet Jacques p. 82 Endgame Laurie Taylor

C oyo t e / A M C

U r su l a features p. 20 Revolutions Rachel Shabi on a turbulent year in Egypt and Tunisia

The trials of Walter White, page 50

Handed down on tablets, page 62

p. 24 Interview Paul Sims meets science writer Simon Singh p. 28 Philosophy Jonathan Rée on Theodor Adorno and the Holocaust p. 32 Europe Agata Pyzik investigates Femen, the Ukrainian

“sextremists” p. 37 The Debate Tom Chivers, Terri Murray and Alom Shaha discuss the New Atheism p. 42 Cover Story Kenan Malik argues, against the political consensus, that immigration does not harm society p. 46 Vox Pops Will Self, Nina Power, Jim Al-Khalili, Jenni Murray and others on what secularism means to them

New Humanist | Winter 2013

Culture p. 50 Television Mark Fisher on the morality of Breaking Bad p. 54 Writing Fatema Ahmed on Iain Sinclair’s life and work p. 58 Bodies Sally Feldman on the vagina p. 62 Communication Giovanni Tiso on smartphones and human memory p. 64 Film Alice Bloch on truth and reconciliation in Bosnia p. 68 Ideas Priyamvada Gopal on Edward Said’s humanism

Boks p. 70-77 Reviews Anthony Clavane on Jewish atheism; Owen Hatherley on Orwell; Fiona Sampson on Auden; Zakia Uddin on Jhumpa Lahiri; Caspar Melville on Michael Ignatieff; Dawn Foster on poverty p. 78 The Arts Interview

Eimear McBride poetry p. 53 The Actuary

Sean O’Brien p. 56 After us Nikolai Madzirov p. 61 From: A Dream Book

David Harsent p. 67 Reminder Tsvetanka Elenkova

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