Books & arts
23 October 2019
Books | There are reasons why Claire Weekes didn’t receive professional recognition, but they don’t take away from her achievement
Books & arts
7 June 2019
Books | Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
Books & arts
14 March 2019
Books | What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Books & arts
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
From the archive
8 October 2018
What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
Essays & reportage
16 August 2018
What happens when you meet the person you’ve done battle with online?
Books & arts
3 July 2017
Books | When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin?
Books & arts
27 February 2017
Books | Our experience of time has a lot to do with how we balance past, present and future
Books & arts
9 January 2015
Books | We need to change, yet we resist. Sara Dowse reviews Vincent Deary’s compelling account of the psychological how and why
Books & arts
13 November 2014
A diplomat and a psychologist have produced a remarkable guide to dealing with intransigent conflicts, writes Graeme Dobell
Books & arts
18 February 2013
A new book explores why wars can continue well beyond the point where they seem to have served any purpose, writes Tom Bamforth
Books & arts
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes Sally Ferguson
Books & arts
27 April 2012
If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
10 April 2012
Are we so impressed by the power of collaboration that we’ve come to overvalue working in groups, asks Jock Given
Books & arts
17 August 2011
Jon Ronson has chased psychopathology from Gothenburg to Florida. Brett Evans reviews his new book