Leslie Jamison: confessional writing is not self-indulgent
When Leslie Jamison wrote a collection of personal essays she was inundated with notes from strangers longing to share their stories in return
KGoal: introducing the fitness tracker for your vagina
Wearable technology conquers the final frontier with KGoal, a device to help women the world over exercise their pelvic floor muscles better
Thrive by Richard Layard and David M Clark – review
Banish those negative thoughts: Jenny Diski questions a well-intentioned crusade to improve mental health undertaken by New Labour's 'Happiness Tsar'
Why I love … cycling
In the latest in our series about outdoor exercise, Peter Kimpton explains how bike and body can feel inextricably entwined
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers review – Joanna Bourke’s erudite and witty study
Poets and priests as well as medics are consulted in Joanna Bourke's bold study of the human response to pain, writes Salley Vickers
One Born Every Minute; Commando: Return to the Front Line – TV review
Tim Dowling: As gripping, moving and NHS-affirming as ever, One Born Every Minute still makes me cry three times per episode
Can film scripts help people understand anxiety?
Laura Barnett: Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions, now with its own arts festival. But can seeing various disorders played out in films such as Solaris and Walz With Bashir further our understanding?
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg – digested read
John Crace crunches the mathematics professor's words on life's conundrums down to a more manageable number
Elizabeth Is Missing review – Emma Healey’s dementia detective story
A novel narrated by an 82-year-old searching the neighbourhood for her elderly friend is both brilliant and unconvincing, writes Andrea Gillies
Anatomical Barbie is woman-hating nonsense – not art
Jonathan Jones: Jason Freeny's sculptures exposing the wasp-waisted doll's crushed-together organs is a gimmicky act of symbolic destruction – yet today it's what passes for heavyweight culture