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Neurologist explains how brain disorders shape our sense of self

Neurologist Masud Husain shares insights from his patients with brain conditions on the profound effect it has on their identity and the hope that modern neuroscience can provide

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A human brain made with golden wires

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Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society science book prize

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Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905

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Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

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Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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: Ludovic Slimak, discoverer of Thorin showing the Thorin maxillar. Photography Laure Metz

Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

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New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

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Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

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Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

Not only are children starting puberty earlier, they face a digital world where, for good and bad, most of their interactions are internalised. How We Grow Up is scary, illuminating and hopeful, says Chris Simms

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Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

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91av recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

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Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

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