Sick in the head
Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield suggests we radically overhaul the way doctors work.
Making sense of fantasy
Brett Kahr: How we all stage our own private sex scenes.
F is for fantasy
If you've ever dreamed of wild sex with the Queen and Margaret Thatcher, don't worry - you're not alone. In a groundbreaking analysis of what makes Britain tick sexually, Brett Kahr has uncovered the fantasies that fuel our sex lives, and what they tell us about ourselves.
The sick society
Oliver James's Affluenza shows how wealth and misery go hand in hand, says William Leith.
In Rocky’s footsteps
Ever since the first Rocky film, fans have been running up the most famous steps in America in homage to their boxing hero. And their stories are just as inspirational as that of their idol, Sarfraz Manzoor discovers.
Drawn to a happy conclusion
Marisa Acocella Marchetto's cartoon view of her treatment for illness, Cancer Vixen, inspires Stella Duffy.
Schools for sinners
Josh Lacey joins Tobias Jones's search for an alternative community in Utopian Dreams.
Publishers aim to pile on the pounds with new diet books
As the obesity crisis deepens, the new year will unleash a slew of books offering the perfect guide to shifting the flab. Here are the titles fighting for your cash ...
An intriguing example showing exemplary cunning
Oliver Burkeman: How To Win Friends And Influence People, the 1936 book that started the modern self-help movement, will be of particular benefit to you if you fall into any of the following categories ...
‘I call it Thing or Beast or It. They call it a sarcoma’
Broadcaster Nick Clarke, who died last week, kept a diary of his fight against cancer. His widow, Barbara Want, introduces his story.