ulture p. 48 Architecture Rebuilding after nuclear disaster By Owen Hatherley p. 52 Food The cult of celebrity diets By Sally Feldman p. 56 Ideas What’s wrong with ancient wisdom? By Michel Petheram p. 60 Literature Why you might already be living in a dystopia By Ray Filar
Books p. 66 Reviews Niki Seth-Smith on the refugee crisis; Alice Bloch on Martha Nussbaum; Sarah Ditum on Victorian intellectuals; Richard Smyth on death in nature poetry p. 55 Janet Sutherland p. 59 Lyuba Yakimchuk p. 63 Kit Fan p. 65 Ahren Warner ontributors Anthony Barnett is the author of Blimey, it could be Brexit (available to download at opendemocracy.net) Alice Bloch is a radio producer, with a background in studying the former Yugoslavia
James Bridle is a writer and visual artist whose work is collected at shorttermmemoryloss. com Marcus Chown is the author of What a Wonderful World (Faber & Faber) Andrew Copson is chief executive of the British Humanist Association Sarah Ditum is a columnist and book reviewer
Rosa Ellis works in communications for a trade union Sally Feldman is a trustee of the Rationalist Association and a former editor of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour
Ray Filar is a writer and editor who specialises in politics, subcultures and mental health Cal Flyn is a Scottish journalist and the author of the memoir Thicker Than Water (William Collins) Max Goldman is development officer at Sense About Science Owen Hatherley is the author of Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane) and The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso) Toby Lichtig is an editor at the Times Literary Supplement Alex Macpherson writes on popular culture for a range of publications Chris Maslanka sets the New Humanist quiz and is the author of several puzzle books
Reni Eddo-Lodge is writing a book on race, politics and popular culture ichel Petheram writes on philosophy and history Michael Rosen is a poet and novelist, as well as a former Children’s Laureate Martin Rowson is a widely published cartoonist and illustrator
Richard Scorer is a lawyer and author of Betrayed: The English Catholic Church and the Sex Abuse Crisis (Biteback) Niki Seth-Smith lives in Athens and is cofounder of the online magazine Precarious Europe Samira Shackle is assistant editor of New Humanist
Richard Smyth is the author of the novel Wild Ink (Dead Ink Press) Laurie Taylor is president of the Rationalist Association Tosin Thompson is a science journalist and actor ew Humanist, ISSN 0306-512X, is published four times a year by the Rationalist Association © 2016 New Humanist Printed by Blackmore Ltd, Dorset
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