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Ambiguous, fluid and hybrid people

Marc Scully (Loughborough University) reviews the British Museum's exhibition 'Celts: Art and Identity'.

Giving child sexual abuse no place to hide

Dr Oliver Sindall reflects on BBC2’s ‘The Truth about Child Sexual Abuse’.

Wisdom, madness and folly

Kate Johnstone reviews Patrick Marmion's new play 'The Divided Laing'.

The lost boy

Kate Johnstone (Associate Editor for Reviews) on 'Beasts of no Nation'.

Music and science in harmony

Are links evident between Floating Points’ neuroscience background and his album Elaenia?

Reviews

Books from the December issue (including web-only).

Dr Jeremy Swinson on a film directed by Bill Pohlid.

A formula stirred but not shaken

Kate Johnstone (UCL) reviews the new Bond film Spectre.

Bearing witness to a journey in dementia

Felicity Caryer (Assistant Psychologist working with Older People) reviews The Father, at Delfont Macintosh Theatre – Wyndham’s Theatre.

A scalpel-sharp analysis of the brain and more

Jenny Doe reviews 'The Brain Show', from Robert Newman, plus a Q+A.

Shining a light on the scourge of suicide

Editor Jon Sutton reflects on BBC3's 'Professor Green: Suicide and me'.

A message to his tormentors

Dr Victoria Tischler reviews 'Mental - the vacuum cleaner' at the Freud Museum, 29 September 2015.

A visual representation of political dissent

Professor Louise Higgins reviews Ai WeiWei's exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Reviews, November 2015

Books from our November issue.

Hangmen

Kate Johnstone reviews a Martin McDonagh play from the Royal Court Theatre.

Brutal, but not brave

Jon Sutton reviews 'The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas'; plus exclusive extract.

Daggers of the mind

Dr Nigel Hunt (University of Nottingham) reviews the new film version of Macbeth.

Dinosaurs in the workplace

Andrew Clements provides an organisational psychology perspective on the blockbuster film Jurassic World.

The more alien we become, the more human we remain

Jon Sutton reports from the Science Museum's 'Cosmonauts' exhibition.

Reviews

Books from our October issue, including Oliver Sacks' memoir.

Drawn to the nectars of negativity

Lynsey Gozna and Julian Boon review Banksy's Dismaland, Weston-Super-Mare.

Are video games really that bad?

Jon Sutton reviews the BBC Horizon programme.

The nature of belief

Kate Johnstone reviews a documentary directed by Alex Gibney, 'Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief'.

A little life less ordinary

Kate Johnstone reviews A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (published by Picador), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Worth remembering

Kate Johnstone reviews 'How to have a better brain' on BBC Radio 4.