The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High‑Tech World, by Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen
Are our mental faculties really too unevolved to keep us afloat in an ocean of digital distraction? asks Shane O’Mara
Are our mental faculties really too unevolved to keep us afloat in an ocean of digital distraction? asks Shane O’Mara
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal their favourite titles – read for work, for pleasure or both – published this year
The discipline has promised big advances in many areas, but is it failing to live up to the hype? Three neuroscientists consider the state of their field
Members of the higher education community tell us about two books they plan to take on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of a second look
On the bicentenary of the Irish writer’s birth, Bill McCormack weighs his preoccupation with family, guilt, dualism and the disappeared
Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century
Battle for Empire