Dallas Buyers Club – review
This story of a heterosexual 'good ol' boy' who imports and sells Aids therapies has a barnstorming performance from Matthew McConaughey, writes Peter Bradshaw
The difference between naked boys and naked girls
Holly Baxter: There no denying there are double standards when it comes to nudity, but both sexes need liberating from social oppression
Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power by Dan Hurley – review
Dan Hurley's investigation of the intelligence training market is entertaining if inconclusive, writes Ben East
The Last Asylum by Barbara Taylor – review
Barbara Taylor was a successful author. Then her demons began to overwhelm her. Before long she was necking pills and found herself in Friern hospital ... By Jenny Turner
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht – review
The writer's conviction that suicide is wrong skews what might otherwise be a fascinating historical study, writes Lisa Appignanesi
Subliminal: The New Unconscious and What It Teaches Us by Leonard Mlodinow – review
This is fascinating insight into our "inner unknown self" and its role in shaping the world we know, writes PD Smith
The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness
Andrew Anthony: The astonishing story of the British man who began a part-time psychology course in his 50s – and ended up taking on America's academic establishment
Not self-help but Shelf Help
Who needs self-help literature when Shelf Help, a series of specially chosen books, including Jeanette's Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and Stephen Grosz's The Examined Life, can make you feel better, asks Alex Clark
French Women Don’t Get Facelifts by Mireille Guiliano – review
The author of French Women Don't Get Fat is back with an account of how to age with attitude – is it useful, or drivel, asks Zoe Williams
Freedom from Emotional Eating by Paul McKenna – digested read
John Crace reduces the latest tome of dieting advice from Britain's second-favourite hypnotist Paul McKenna to a slimline 600 words