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
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution by Travis Elborough – review
There’s plenty to look at in this enjoyable stroll through the history of our public parks, despite a few omissions