In 1935 acerbic Minnesota novelist Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here, a disturbing book about a fascist takeover in the United States. Fifty years later, Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid’s Tale, another disturbing book,... Read More

What age is too young for truth? Mary Anne Farah would say that children old enough to look at pictures are old enough to start being introduced to the truth about the wonderful world they... Read More

The myth persists. Even in our modern world, countless people believe that without God, one’s life has no purpose or meaning — that the lives of atheists are devoid of joy and happiness because they... Read More

Tom Standage’s self-imposed mandate is to assuage our technoterror. In books like his laudable study of the telegraph, The Victorian Internet (1998), and An Edible History of Humanity (2009), the author demonstrated, mostly successfully, that... Read More

Ronald Dworkin’s last book, Religion Without God, is simultaneously a blast from the past and a sign of the times. He claims to be religious and atheist in a manner that has some parallels in... Read More

Is overpopulation the source of the world’s problems? Author Alan Weisman thinks so. HNN’s resident book reviewer David Chivers reviews Weisman’s latest book. In his new book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future... Read More

On Nov. 15, Humanist Press will release Holidays and Other Disasters, a book that considers the major U.S. holidays from an atheist’s perspective. Author John G. Rodwan, Jr. uses his personal experiences in Detroit during... Read More