Thomas Szasz obituary

Psychiatrist who fought coercion and denied the existence of mental illness

Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review

John Naughton on life, intelligence and the 'smart tax'

Expert on alcohol and drug addiction who pioneered new forms of treatment

Psychologist Oliver James on how his new technique can transform children with common emotional or behavioural problems

Can women only be creative if they're having great sex? Rachel Cooke on a dotty theory

Naomi Wolf: Those who criticise Vagina: A New Biography have forgotten that pro-sex data is a vital part of our movement's history

Does this book reveal an existential crisis among women or merely tell us more than we wanted to know about its author, asks Jenny Turner

Katherine Angel puts her own sex life on the page in this fragmentary, giddily joyful study of female desire, writes Olivia Laing

Stuart Kelly on an ambitious, 'astonishingly good' allegory

A discussion of good and bad mothers is not good enough for Rachel Cusk