July/August 2008

THE LITERATURE ISSUE

 

Mapping Metaphor: This is Your Brain on Figurative Language

Neurobiological research shows creative construction to be most cerebral.

 

The Moon Doth Shine as Bright as Day

“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”

“Paradiso,” “Of Crows”

 

FICTION:
“The Age of Barbaria”

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5 YEARS IN: HUMANISTS DEBATE IRAQ WAR
A Case of Invasion

Doing Our Part?

Petards of Mass Destruction

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?

Jonathan Miller

A Brief History of Jonathan Miller
THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW (extended version)

2008 ESSAY CONTEST
for Young Women and Men
of North America

See the 2007 Essay Contest Winners here