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Exiled Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran offers a series of letters to those who, for whatever reason, are displaced ...

We meet the novelists behind a new wave of stories exploring the sexual fantasies of midlife women ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown’s feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

In the far reaches of our solar system, over 10 billion miles from the small blue dot we call home, the Pioneer probes are soaring into the oblivion of deep space. However, these cosmic messages in a ...

In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast. Considering the mayhem that was raging nearby – the rioting, bombings and shootings – the teachers did a ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...

A scene from the Jack in the Green festivities in Hastings. © Alamy As I descend into the Old Town of Hastings, locals drape luscious garlands and leafy bunting from ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. Death is a fundamental feature of our lives. Fear of death has been present in most cultures for a very long time. It is a basic ...