THE LITERATURE ISSUE
Mapping Metaphor: This is Your Brain on Figurative Language
by Kenneth Krause
Neurobiological research shows creative construction to be most cerebral.
The Moon Doth Shine as Bright as Day
by Philip Pullman
“Nothing human is alien to me,” the best-selling novelist writes, “including those most ghastly of all monsters, people who don’t think as I do.”
POETRY:
“This is the Time for Which We Have Been Waiting”
by Joyce Carol Oates
“Paradiso,” “Of Crows”
by Temple Cone
FICTION:
“The Age of Barbaria”
by Jorge Majfud
5 YEARS IN: HUMANISTS DEBATE IRAQ WAR
A Case of Invasion
by T. F. Kelley
Doing Our Part?
by Dennis Vanvick
Petards of Mass Destruction
by David Swanson
Is it possible to convict a group of people of the highest possible crime simply by editing together public statements that they made while planning it?
A Brief History of Jonathan Miller
THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW (extended version)
by Fred Edwords
2008 ESSAY CONTEST
for Young Women and Men
of North America
See the 2007 Essay Contest Winners here