I was troubled by Rob Walker's slipshod correlation in his otherwise fascinating examination of the Gap's recent logo problems.
Despite some unnecessarily ominous narration from Steven Berkoff, this was a quietly fascinating examination of how the brain reacts to expectations of wellbeing.
A fascinating examination of friendship is at the heart of Anna Thomasson's magnificently researched yet largely ignored biography, A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing, published in paperback this year (Macmillan £9.99).
Framed as a "settling of accounts" with his native country, Hughes's story occasionally becomes self-indulgently sour, but it offers a fascinating examination of artistic patrimony and the formation of a critic.
Graham Farmelo is author of The Strangest Man: The Life of Paul Dirac. Bruce Hood, an experimental psychologist, provides a fascinating examination of how the latest science shows that our concept of the self is an illusion.
Jenny Offill's excellent Dept. of Speculation is a fascinating examination of the complexity of the female writer's post-childbirth experience of work as well as an astute, unsentimental portrayal of a foundering marriage.
The accompanying voice-overs, recorded more recently, sometimes distract from the power images, but the film is nonetheless a powerful and fascinating examination, from the outside, of the politics of race and resistance in an unsettled and still contested era.
Included in the competition for the £28,000 prize are Diana Nyad's memoir of her remarkable swimming career - at 64-years-old she became the first person to swim the 100 miles between Havana, Cuba and the coast of Florida without a shark cage – Find a Way and Rick Broadbent's fascinating examination of the life of Olympic great Emil Zátopek, Endurance.
Years later, he got to thinking about how parents deal generally with children whose identities fall outside of their own – what he calls the child's "horizontal" as opposed to "vertical" identity – and the result is a fascinating examination of the accommodation of difference.
The show is a fascinating examination of the limits of information — Eric wonders aloud, more than once, whether anything he could possibly uncover would satisfy him — and it comes at a particularly relevant time, rounding out a year overrun with "fake news" and "alternative facts".
