Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review
Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder? Not on this evidence, writes Alexander Linklater
The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers
Could an unlicensed mind pill restore the energy lost to multiple sclerosis? For novelist MJ Hyland, who feared her working life was over, it was worth the risk…
Porn studies is the new discipline for academics
First peer-reviewed journal invites experts to contribute in time for spring debut, writes John Dugdale
Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That’s Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power – review
Steven Poole on a fascinating and funny study of the new drug scene
Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 by Wilhelm Reich – review
Can sexual satisfaction lead to revolution?Christopher Turner on genital utopia
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review
Is chronic estrangement from nature responsible for our children's woes? By Alexander Linklater
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There by Cheryl Strayed – review
Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar agony aunt columns will infuriate some but delight many more, writes Viv Groskop
Bipolar memoirs: What have I done?
We live in bipolar times. Yet memoirs of manic depression by Stephen Fry and others suggest the new diagnosis, treated with drugs, risks ignoring the crucial details of each patient's condition. By Darian Leader
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review
Sentimentality clouds an otherwise sharp diagnosis of child unhappiness, writes Mary Beard
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review
The shocks come thick and fast in this courageous and clear-sighted memoir about a family secret, says Elizabeth Lowry