‘Calves are the biceps of the legs!’: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s seven big life lessons
Find opportunity in failure – and don’t let your legs get in the way of world domination. Here is the distilled wisdom of Arnie’s first foray into self-help
‘There’s bombshell after bombshell’: will Blue Therapy be the wildest reality TV ride of the year?
After three million people tuned in for the online version of this therapy show for Black couples, Channel 4 have turned it into an explosive series. Brace for controversy
How I learned to tell my own story as a South Asian woman
As a child, I wanted to belong, but didn’t see brown girls like me in culture. I’d like space for our stories to be told, too
Running marathons helped me write my novel
The sport helped with my tenacity, and my creativity too
The big idea: are memories fact or fiction?
Truth and illusion are woven together as we tell ourselves into being
His friend’s murder rocked Hua Hsu’s life – and made him the person he is today
Twenty-five years after the senseless killing of his friend, the author and journalist finally feels a sense of peace
Breaking Through Depression; The Balanced Brain – reviews
Last year, research cast doubt on the dominant ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression. Now two persuasive books by scientists Philip Gold and Camilla Nord offer very different causes of the illness – though both are optimistic about our future treatment of the ‘cancer of the self’
The Immortals: meet the billionaires forking out for eternal life
A fascinating and often terrifying new podcast delves into the lengths ‘longevity superstars’ will go to make 90 the new 50, from swapping blood with the young to designing the first ‘post-humans’
Four Ways of Thinking by David Sumpter review – safety in numbers?
A mathematician tries to make sense of the world through different lenses in this surprisingly original book
Alone by Daniel Schreiber review – me, myself and I
A moving insight into the joys and anguish of solitude – and the value of friendship