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?
The Middlepause by Marina Benjamin and In My Own Times by Jane Miller – review
What does it mean to be middle-aged? Is 50 over the hill? An honest facing up to loss and sadness is an important theme in these valuable studies
Lean in 15: The Shape Plan by Joe Wicks – digested read
The fitness guru’s 15-minute healthy eating recipe plan is trimmed to shape in less than 800 words
A Walk in the Park by Travis Elborough review – what makes a park a park?
William Boyd gives his definition of a park, and praises a wonderful book, full of learning and enthusiasm, that insists we need to cherish and protect these ‘people’s institutions’
Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski review – what turns soldiers into monsters?
Drunk Romans and drugged Americans: the chemical arsenal used to dull the horror of war