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Nick Hornby: the Prospect interview
Paul Broks
— 27th August 2009 — Issue 162 
Paul Broks talks fiction, football and cultural value with the godfather of lad-lit
Out of mind
Paul Broks
— 31st August 2008 — Issue 149
What’s wrong with a man buying an oven-ready chicken, having sex with it, then serving it to his friends for dinner? Disgust is the guardian of our souls
Subject: Health, People & populationsThe mystery of consciousness
Nicholas Humphrey’s latest book on the mystery of consciousness travelled with me to Crete, Latvia and America. And the intellectual journey it took me on has half-persuaded me that his evolutionary approach will one day provide an answer
Subject: Books & literature, Intellectuals & ideas, People & populationsOut of mind
Paul Broks
— 19th June 2005 — Issue 111
Music is not mere “auditory cheesecake”—it tunes the engines of self-awareness. That’s why I ration my intake of Arvo Pärt and drive to the Small Faces
Out of mind
Paul Broks
— 21st May 2005 — Issue 110
Teaching my son to drive exposes him to a high risk of death. He is as responsible as I was at 17, but his brain is not yet ready to prevent him taking chances
Out of mind
Paul Broks
— 17th April 2005 — Issue 109
I call it “Broks’s paradox”: the condition of believing that the mind is separate from the body, even though you know this belief to be untrue
Out of mind
Paul Broks
— 17th March 2005 — Issue 108
Jason has had unsuccessful brain surgery for his epilepsy. My visit to him is now forever associated in my mind with the horror of the gingerbread man
Out of mind
Paul Broks
— 20th February 2005 — Issue 107
I have long dreamed of tsunamis, although I grew up far from the ocean. The disaster seems to have stirred the ancient relics of our common humanity
Out of mind
Paul Broks
— 16th January 2005 — Issue 106
Our minds are partly shaped by mimicry, which is why Phil makes me feel alert and Jeff leaves me empty — and why Tony Blair apes the way George W Bush walks
Out of mind
Paul Broks
— 18th December 2004 — Issue 105
Throughout the stages of my life it is the occasional decorative detail I remember, not the “I” of subjective experience. In fact, I’m not unlike my amnesiac patient
Paul Broks
Paul Broks is a neuropsychologist and author of Into the Silent Land (Atlantic)
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