Cancer? You’ve got to laugh
Tiredness crept in like a warm blanket And suffocated me in sleep My bones ached, my mind was tired My will, my motivation, both weak.
I’m a survivor, not a victim
Tania Farrell Yelland was diagnosed with breast cancer while she was pregnant with her first child. It would mean surgery, chemotherapy and, possibly, an abortion. Here she explains how the two of them made it through
Fighting back
Who says women are the weaker sex at sport? On the eve of the Sydney Olympics, a new book promises to explode the myth that female equals frail.
Men in the psychiatrist’s chair
Andrew Rissik salutes Anthony Clare's On Men: Masculinity in Crisis, a passionate polemic for a new kind of masculinity
Our daily bread
In Majorca, the traditional peasant fare of pa amb oli - bread drizzled with olive oil - is enjoying a revival. Here Tomás Graves, son of the poet Robert Graves, celebrates a deceptively simple dish
A girl less ordinary
She was a bright and attractive child - a daughter to be proud of. But for almost two decades, Amy Wilensky hid a bewildering array of physical and mental tics, as well as a compulsion to hoard and catalogue junk. Now she has written a moving memoir about a life spent 'passing for normal'.
The new race relations
Latest in the long line of literary genres to arrive in Britain from America is books on black relationships. Helen Kolawole reports
Transcript: Julie Myerson live online
The author of Sleepwalking and Laura Blundy discusses the importance of sex in fiction and reveals her ideas for her next book. Read the full talk thread here.
Cow’s milk and cancer
A new book suggests that cutting out dairy produce can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Gillian Ross examines the evidence