The year in stuff – from chicken wine to cucumbers and mini mullets
Did you make and trade a friendship bracelet? Invest in a Stanley cup? What we wore, used and shared in 2024
Paul Gordon obituary
Other lives: Psychotherapist, author and campaigner determined to improve people’s lives
Ouch! Solving the riddle of pain
We all know what hurts, but why is it so difficult to describe? Emma Cook meets the neurologists attempting to answer one of medicine’s hardest questions
The joy of trivia: ‘We wrote our book together to intrigue each other’
After midlife burnout came a rediscovered curiosity for two friends and writers
Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’
The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startling
The best ideas books of 2024
Richard Dawkins’s greatest hits, the diaries of a sociopath and a history of the gut
In brief: Eurotrash; Overcoming: A Workbook; What Writers Read – review
An unsettling semi-autobiographical road trip; practical life advice from Michelle Obama; and essays by leading writers on the books they love
An Improbable Psychiatrist by Rebecca Lawrence review – doctor turned patient
A brave memoir from a psychiatrist with severe mental illness that describes a failing system from within
Not quite religion, not quite self-help: welcome to the Jordan Peterson age of nonsense
Unintelligible as it is, new book is part of a ‘manifesting’ trend offering the young and spiritually lost an illusion of control
‘The very thought of it repelled me’: how a skiing accident left me unable to read
After suffering a head injury, I found I was unable to read without headaches, eye strain and wild mood swings – and that my condition was far from rare