Will Mozart make my child smarter?
Luisa Dillner: Will listening to classical music or learning to play an instrument increase my child's IQ or help them do better at school?
Stranger Than Kindness by Mark A Radcliffe – review
A subtle and carefully paced story about a psychiatric nurse trying to heal himself and others
Alain de Botton’s guide to art as therapy
Can visual art offer solace, hope and reassurance as music can? Alain de Botton chooses the works that make him feel less alone
Best theatre of 2013, No 7: Ghosts
Mark Lawson: Richard Eyre's production modernised the pacing of Ibsen and in the process made it yet more pertinent to our times
Shuga: the soap opera helping Africa confront HIV
Successful sex drama moves to Nigeria to help people in country with world's second-highest HIV rate open up about Aids
Judging the Guardian first book award and seeking an objective verdict
Lynda Mountford: It's been a fascinating process, but the search for a perfectly just conclusion was always going to be tricky
The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen – review
Jonathan Derbyshire on the collapse of the distinction between public and private
Rebecca Adlington’s body image anxiety mirrors that of most women
Daisy Buchanan: The I'm a Celebrity contestant and champion swimmer should be an inspiration for what her body does. But instead, the focus is on what it looks like
QI and the magical power of facts
The TV quiz's top fact-checker, John Mitchinson, reveals some of the favourite nuggets of information he uncovered for its latest publication
‘Manorexia’ and Hollywood’s hunger games
The Hunger Games actor Sam Claflin thinks he's fat when he isn't – and says it is because the idealised cinema body shape is forced on men as much as women