From THES, musing on the often acrimonious debate between atheists and believers, Simon Blackburn takes as his inspiration David Hume, who approached the issue not with hatred but with humour; Felipe Fernandez-Armesto finds his beloved Oxford changed, changed utterly; Duncan Wu on a night of sublimity and terror among the roaring, soaring, brutally lyrical Monster Trucks; amid the marketing puffery and opaque jargon, many prospectuses fail to explain what a course is really about — the good, the bad and the flannel; doctor who and how: Viva PhD success, and let's fete the candidates a little, too; a review of Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy by Olivia Holmes; and a review of Le Corbusier and the Occult by J. K. Birksted. A look at how Biden and Obama are figuring out how to make their relationship work. Extremist nightmares: The European Union is one reason not to fear the spectre of the 1930s. From The Rumpus, an article on why you should not be afraid to read Little Women; an interview with Trevor Paglen, author of I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed By Me; an interview with Jason Kottke; and an interview with Will Rockwell, author of All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, DC. A review of Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health and Our Toxic World by David Ewing Duncan.
