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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

The New ��˾þ� Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science book about neurology

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Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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A human brain made with golden wires

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Neurologist explains how brain disorders shape our sense of self

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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

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

Forget the tropes about how violence or maybe volcanic eruptions killed off our ancient cousins, The Last Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak offers a very different take on how they died out

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

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Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

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Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

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