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Your brain on pseudoscience: the 'neuroscience' shelves in bookshops are groaning. But are the works of authors such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer just self-help books dressed up in a lab coat?

• Authors : Poole, Steven

• Source: New Statesman (1996). Sept 7, 2012, Vol. 141 Issue 5122, p30, 4 p.

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Oh no! It's Christmas! Santa Claus, the Queen's Speech--what's so great about it all, anyway? The Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? authors Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur offer their guide to everything rubbish about the festive season

• Authors : Lowe, Steve; McArthur, Alan

• Source: New Statesman (1996). Dec 19, 2005, Vol. 134 Issue 4771, p56, 3 p.

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Writers at war: the literary world loves a feud, but a fierce row is threatening English PEN's very existence. The casualties may be imprisoned authors around the world

• Authors : Cox, David

• Source: New Statesman (1996). Oct 18, 2004, Vol. 133 Issue 4710, p28, 3 p.

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The sense of an ending: sales of ebooks will reach a new high this Christmas. Yet the outlook for publishers and authors is grim - they need to sell many more to survive

• Authors : Clee, Nicholas

• Source: New Statesman (1996). Dec 19, 2011, Vol. 140 Issue 5084-5085, p78, 2 p.

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Publish and be damned: in an attempt to find new talent, a publisher has devised a way of making it easier for authors to get into print. Simon Baker reads the first six offerings and wonders if the scheme was such a good idea

• Authors : Baker, Simon

• Source: New Statesman (1996). April 10, 2006, Vol. 135 Issue 4787, p50, 2 p.

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Out of the wilderness

• Source: New Statesman (1996). Sept 5, 2014, Vol. 143 Issue 5226, p44, 4 p.

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The Orwell wars: two views on how a dispute over the Spanish civil war festered for years

• Source: New Statesman (1996). April 12, 2013, Vol. 142 Issue 5153-5154, p54, 4 p.

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'You get lucky, don't you?': told he wasn't good enough for university, Michael Morpurgo instead tried joining the army. He quit feeling unworthier still. No wonder, then, that the man who wrote War Horse - soon to be a Hollywood film - speaks so powerfully to children who feel awkward, shy or alone

• Authors : Elmhirst, Sophie

• Source: New Statesman (1996). Nov 14, 2011, Vol. 140 Issue 5079, p32, 4 p.

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'Every day, one is insulted in India': after winning the Booker Prize in 1997, Arundhati Roy could have been a 'pretty lady who wrote a book'. Instead, she took up a host of political causes ... and fell out with her country's elite

• Authors : Elmhirst, Sophie

• Source: New Statesman (1996). July 18, 2011, Vol. 140 Issue 5062, p28, 4 p.

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The city on the edge of the world: in 1933, J B Priestley set off to discover 'the common well of Englishness'. In the first of a new series following in his footsteps, award-winning writer Edward Piatt travels to the isolated, defiant outpost of Hull

• Authors : Platt, Edward

• Source: New Statesman (1996). Oct 31, 2011, Vol. 140 Issue 5077, p30, 7 p.

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