Plus Hidden Brain on NPR

The life of one paratrooper shows how we learned to see soldiers as ordinary people suffering in the service of their country, finds Lara Feigel

Plus Julia Roberts in Amazon Prime Video Series Homecoming

Drink is the organising principle of this entertaining memoir

The former editor tells of his dealings with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden

The novel, set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, sets the reader on edge

Plus Latvian violinist Baibe Skride in Belfast

But we could develop a renewed humanism

Plus Norman Ackroyd at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Plus the wryly comic Japanese film Shoplifters