Atul Gawande: ‘Why, as you become older and sicker, should you give up your autonomy?’

The surgeon and author of Being Mortal on improving our final innings and the importance of spontaneity

A Place of Refuge by Tobias Jones review – an experiment in communal living

A refreshingly honest account of one couple’s remarkable project: to open their family home to some of society’s most vulnerable people

John Waters: ‘I want to be despised’

John Waters has turned his hand to art. The ‘Pope of Trash’ takes us on a tour of his work – and explains why he performed plastic surgery on Lassie

Glastonbury’s Healing Fields: festivalgoer wellbeing is not just for hippies

Glastonbury’s focus on making the world a ‘saner, greener, healthier place’ has grown from new age niche to mainstream concern. At the Green Fields, you can take your pick from gong baths, laughter workshops and partner yoga

Festivals, flights and fulfilment: welcome to the post-digital world

However well-connected it makes us, cyberspace is lonely. That’s why, more and more, we are looking for live experiences

Modern Romance review – a refreshing male take on sex

Aziz Ansari entertains and illuminates as he observes how technology complicates relationships

Tobias Jones Q&A: ‘When you’ve got lice or nits in your hair, are you allowed to kill them?’

Tobias Jones talks about the communal refuge he runs, the criteria for allowing newcomers in and the effect of his faith

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History by Francis O’Gorman – review

‘Now it’s over, I can enjoy my holiday.’ It’s sometimes self-indulgent and often irrational. So why do many of us spend our lives fretting?

My Big Fat Documentary Review review – performance artist Scottee stands up for fat people

Behind the sparkly circus-camp of the Hamburger Queen beauty pageant lies an exploration of Scottee’s own feelings about his size

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari review – for everyone whose date never texted back

Sexting, snooping, cheating … the comedian takes a light-hearted tour through the minefield of dating in the age of the smartphone