...reviews

Basquiat – ‘hauntingly relevant to today’s world’

Basma Alharthy visits an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery.

What to read… if you’re losing faith in humanity

Can both fiction and non-fiction restore it?

iGen – science or advertisement?

Amy Orben on Jean Twenge's new book.

Deserves a wide readership

Paul Moloney reviews 'The Masses are the Ruling Classes' by William Epstein.

Far from sugar-coated

Laura Marsh watches 'Hear Me Raw' at the Soho Theatre: written and performed by Daniella Isaacs, and directed by Rosy Banham.

Life consuming

Dr Emily David watches Louis Theroux's 'Talking to Anorexia'.

Diving into something new

Tanya Bhayani reports from the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.

The body as a barrier

Nadia Craddock reads 'Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body', by Roxane Gay, published by Corsair.

Preventing children becoming a statistic

Assistant Psychologist Angela Deegan watches Panorama's 'When Kids Abuse Kids'.

Feel part of a unique friendship

Claire Harris reviews High Tide, Low Tide: The Caring Friend’s Guide to Bipolar Disorder, by Martin Baker & Fran Houston (Nordland; Pb £12.99)

Retaining a sense of hope

Lisa Grünwald reads My Psychosis Story by Emmanuel Owusu (AuthorHouseUK; Pb £29.99)

With a mystery and a positive message

Stacey A. Bedwell reviews The One Memory of Flora Banks, by Emily Barr (Penguin; Pb £7.99)

Trapped in a place of torture

Khadj Rouf on the 'tough read' that is The Incest Diary, an anonymous offering published by Bloomsbury.

We’re all part of the problem

Craig Harper reviews Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World, by James Ball (Biteback; Pb £9.99)

Searching for authentic memories in the digital age

Assistant Professor Ali Mattu (Columbia University) reviews Blade Runner 2049.

A true crime fan's paradise

Angela Deegan listens to the 'Sword and Scale' podcast.

The separate 'anorexic voice'

Madeleine Pownall (University of Lincoln) watches the BBC3 mini-series Overshadowed.

Pushing beyond the stereotypes of voice hearing

Charles Fernyhough on his team's role in an unusual new video game; and two players, Jamie Moffatt and George Hales, give their views on it.

The beautiful durability of human delusion

Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently, by Beau Lotto (Hachette; Pb £12.30)

Not persuasive on psychopathy?

Professor David Pilgrim on a recent Horizon offering, 'What makes a psychopath?'

The same old song, but this time out of tune

Martin Conway is less than impressed by Fredrick Crews’ new book ‘Fre/aud: The Making of an Illusion’

The fringes of the human mind

The Edinburgh Fringe, the world’s largest arts festival, has attracted an increasing amount of performers to explore the topic of mental health. In recognition, this year for the first time there is a Mental Health Fringe Award, initiated to encourage and trigger conversations surrounding the stigma of mental health as well as to reconstruct the perceptions of getting help. We asked Tanya Bhayani to review some of the exciting performances on offer.