The pessimist’s cure for procrastination
Why being on a downer can really help to get things done
Derren Brown: ‘You’re only sad if you tell yourself you’re sad’
After the breakup of a long relationship, the magician found himself pondering how to be happy – and he’s found that it’s simply a trick of the mind
Deliciously Stella: the Instagram sensation serving up raw Kinder eggs on avo-toast
Nauseated by a world of nut butters and cauli pizzas, comedian Bella Younger began a fightback against the clean-eating fanatics
Avalanche by Julia Leigh review – when IVF doesn’t work
Leigh, a writer and director, had six rounds of IVF and didn’t conceive. She writes about the heavy toll it took, and whether grief is admissible for an imagined child
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking – digested read
Contented living the Danish way is explained in the cosiest words possible by John Crace
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