The world in one park: Irina Rozovsky’s best photograph

‘If you’re standing still on a New York street, you’re either lost or crazy. But on the shores of this lake, I saw real stillness for the first time’

Destined for an arranged marriage, I chose to follow my heart

As a teenager, true love seemed like an impossible dream, but I was determined to marry for love and not obligation

‘I’ve been called Satan’: Dr Rachel Clarke on facing abuse in the Covid crisis

As well as fighting to keep Covid patients alive, NHS staff are now battling a surge in abuse and denial in the second wave. Dr Rachel Clarke on how she is coping – and what gives her hope

I enjoyed researching the bloody history of childbirth – then I had a baby

My new novel is about a midwife’s daughter in the old American west. The peril pregnant women underwent, then and now, became all too vivid once I became a parent

Rachel Clarke: ‘NHS staff are burning with frustration and grief at this second wave’

The palliative care doctor and author on a year of Covid in UK hospitals and her hopes for the vaccine

Tom Templeton: ‘I suspect doctors have realised how therapeutic it can be to write books’

The former Observer writer and now GP talks about his new book, 34 Patients, and the challenges he has faced during the pandemic

The Case for Keto review – why a full-fat diet should be on the menu

Gary Taubes argues persuasively that ‘those who fatten easily’ should abandon carbs altogether

The Age of Fitness by Jürgen Martschukat review – why we are obsessed

Do we think of people who keep fit as more successful? The history and politics of an idea

Fearne Cotton: ‘I have found clarity’

She was the face of popular culture, but then Fearne Cotton reached crisis point. Now she has found her voice again...

Nonfiction to look out for in 2021

Biographies of Philip Roth and DH Lawrence, and the curious death of Robert Maxwell