Philip Pullman has contributed to this week’s issue of The New Statesman, a British political and cultural magazine. It is guest-edited this week by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Pullman will, in this issue, be explaining why he is a ‘Church of England atheist’.

Other contributors this week include, Terry Eagleton on secularism, Richard Curtis on the scourge of malaria; and Victoria Coren on the question of faith versus poker.

The issue, cover-dated 13 June, will go on sale in London on Thursday 9 June and in the rest of the UK from Friday 10 June. International buyers can obtain copies through their website.