IN THIS ISSUE

CONTENTS VOLUME 121 NO 4 JULY/AUGUST 2006

COVER STORY

12 STAYING AFLOAT Marking Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday, Isabella Thomas reflects on his remarkable resilience

FEATURES

16ALPHA MALE What do evangelical courses actually teach? Michael Marsden took one to find out

20‘MOSCOW ISN’T SODOM’ Merlin Holland’s eyewitness account of Moscow’s first Gay Pride march

26SPOOKS AND SANDALS MI5 kept tabs on folk singer Ewan MacColl for 40 years. Ken Hunt looks through his file

CULTURE 32BOOKS

SALLY FELDMAN spends the night with Howard Jacobson

TOBY SAUL on how Francis Wheen brings Das Kapital to life

WINSTON FLETCHER finds overstretch in an attempt to explain human nature

ERWIN JAMES goes inside the American prison system

MARTINA EVANS on a true story of changeling belief

38SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL Liz Funk sees through US raunch culture 39SUPREME BEING Ashley Kahn maps John Coltrane’s spiritual journey

22SUMMER QUIZ Blasphemers,holy books and utopias: they’re all here in Sally Feldman’s fiendish brain teaser

Rosé is all the rage this summer. Really. Bag yourself some rare Muscat rosé. See Terry Herbert’s wine offer exclusively for New Humanist readers page 31

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