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Are people born violent?
| Laura BuiJessa Fairbrother
Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
| Rose RuaneMary Bishop
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
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- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
| Lauren ColleeSteven Pocock
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
| Ken Hollings
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.