Books with a strong presence
Our Editor, Jon Sutton, introduces November's issue of The Psychologist.
11 October 2022
By Jon Sutton
Several years ago, I decided it was high time we revamped our coverage of books in Psychology. Less focus on reviews, more Q&As, features and online extracts, and coverage of psychological books by non-psychologists.
At the time it felt like even publishers were a bit dubious about that as a workable idea, so I'm pleased to look at this month's edition and see books with a presence throughout – from the article by BPS award winner Julia Bueno, through to our special feature on power, corruption and trust, the actual 'Books' section and right to our Looking Back on the Beloffs.
I love it when we ask non-psychologists about their psychological books. (We also did it around navigation in the March 2021 issue.) I must admit, I don't read as many of those books as I should – bit of a Busman's holiday – so I was grateful to Ella Rhodes for pointing me to the excellent Corruptible, by Brian Klaas. Ideas for other topics we could cover in a similar way would be much appreciated.
Dr Jon Sutton, Managing Editor, @psychmag
