If ever there were a day deserving to be called—secularly—a “day of reckoning,” this would be the day for Owen Ross, the forty-seven-year-old protagonist of Jon Mills’ provocative first novel, When God Wept. For it... Read More

I perforce begin with a confession: I couldn’t finish Salman Rushdie’s two most notable novels, Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. I don’t love magical realism generally—I hated García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude—and... Read More

When Katherine Stewart first saw a program called the “Good News Club” on the list of available after-school activities at her daughter’s public elementary school in Santa Barbara, California, she didn’t give it much thought,... Read More

Science Versus Religion To understand everything, all you need is 10 numbers and 26 letters which is accurate to the exact extent that every lie has access to that same truth.   Parable of Food... Read More

With his book “Generation Atheist,” Dan Riley starts to fill a large gap in atheist literature.  While many books give the logic, history or the philosophy of atheism and humanism, personal stories, so prevalent in... Read More

This week we’re featuring the beloved humanist poet, Philip Appleman. Philip Appleman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University-Bloomington. He has published eight volumes of poetry, three novels, and half a dozen nonfiction books, including... Read More

We received over 75 entries from HNN readers of hilarious suggestions for last week’s Photo Caption Contest; it was tough to pick a winner! But we had to go with the one that made us... Read More