ADHD Nation: The Disorder. The Drugs. The Inside Story by Alan Schwarz – review
A study of America’s ‘most misdiagnosed condition’ takes Big Pharma to task but leaves one important question begging
From Ali to Zadie: the best books of autumn 2016
John Le Carré reveals his official secrets, Zadie Smith gets swinging, Ali Smith eyes the seasons, and Alan Moore does a Ulysses
Hands: What We Do with Them and Why by Darian Leader – how we keep our hands out of mischief
From flicking fans to swiping phones, humans have always loved to fiddle and fidget
Poster poems: fear
From the personal to the global, there is an uneasy abundance of things to be scared of at the moment. Dare you face up to some in verse?
Jack Urwin: ‘We don’t need to be the men our grandfathers were’
First book interview: The debut author’s study of ‘toxic masculinity’ was uncomfortable to write, but he says it’s fired with hope that clichéd male behaviour can be unlearned
Elizabeth Spillius obituary
Psychoanalyst who brought the ideas of Melanie Klein to a new generation of analysts, therapists, social workers and students
The Sex Lives of English Women review – turkish delight fantasies and great ‘organisms’
Being ravished on Question Time, enjoying bondage in the pub, a nun who wants a threesome … Wendy Jones has given women the space to talk, but could have done much more
Book reviews roundup: The Essex Serpent; The Muse; The Middlepause: On Turning 50
What the critics thought of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, The Muse by Jessie Burton and The Middlepause: On Turning 50 by Marina Benjamin
Tristimania by Jay Griffiths; Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon – review
Two depression memoirs aimed at different readerships both offer optimism and enlightenment
A must-read book? Go on, make me
Faced with rave reviews of musicals, films, books and plays, why does Oliver Burkeman run a mile?