The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy review – a memoir of wanting too much

The New Yorker writer had a life that balanced domesticity with intellectual and sexual adventure. Then it fell apart

Wellcome prize shortlist announced: books that ‘will change lives’

Six books are in contention for the annual award for excellence in science and health writing, including a trainee neurosurgeon’s posthumous memoir and books about the NHS, HIV/Aids and organ donorship

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving – review

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel’s case studies provide vital and compelling insights into bereavement

‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’

At five months pregnant, Ariel Levy lost her baby. After four more years of IVF, had she left motherhood too late?

Gemma Cairney: ‘I was a naughty teen – I got told not to talk back’

The radio DJ and author on her life lessons for young and old – plus raving in Margate

Joanna Bourke: ‘Speaking about suffering helps cope with it’

The author of The Story of Pain explains how an agonising hospital stay prompted her to explore an experience felt very differently down the ages

Never Enough by Barney Hoskyns; The Ice Age by Luke Williams; A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman – review

Three vivid memoirs reveal the horrific pull – and possible benefits – of illicit substances

Deliciously Ella with Friends by Ella Mills – digested read

John Crace reduces the latest clean and healthy cookbook from the blogging author to a slimmer 700 words

Elizabeth Blackburn on the telomere effect: ‘It’s about keeping healthier for longer’

The Nobel winner says keeping telomeres – the ends of our chromosomes – in prime condition can stave off diseases associated with ageing

‘I was weak, despairing, confused’: did writing a novel make me ill?

It started with a bottomless tiredness, and soon novelist Sarah Perry was unable to function. Had she brought it all on herself?