A nose ring, a bicycle, a Radiohead album: I’m becoming a total cliche – and I quite like it

My scorn for convention hid a pit of insecurity. I was just another urban millennial, and never as singular as I imagined, says Novara Media editor Moya Lothian-McLean

The Real Work by Adam Gopnik review – the art of expertise

The New Yorker writer explores what it takes to get good at something, from baking and boxing to mastering his own mind

Electric Malady review – life under a blanket for man who fears ‘electrosenstivity’

This tactful documentary follows William, living in a tinfoil-covered cabin and covered in a blanket. But is there anything behind his condition?

What makes me happy now: dimples

This March, my first child will be here – and I’ll be able to touch the little dimple in his ultrasound pictures. When I smile, I have one, just like my mother

‘My dad wanted to be James Bond. He nearly killed us both’: actor and writer Katy Wix

Katy Wix had a difficult relationship with her dad. But after a near-fatal car accident, they found themselves growing closer

You Are Not Alone by Cariad Lloyd review – the mourning after

In this moving and funny meditation on loss, the host of the award-winning podcast Griefcast argues that shared stories are an effective response to death

My husband and I are at war over the radio. Will peace and quiet ever be possible?

I loathe jingles and DJ banter while he listens to BBC Radio 1 and doesn’t get Radio 4. So who will win: the tinnitus sufferer or the controlling monster, writes Emma Beddington

The big idea: your personality is not set in stone

Think you’re stuck being scatty, or an introvert? The latest research suggests otherwise

I’ve always bought too many clothes, but my life was being ruined by hoarding

I’d spent years in a tearful cycle of shame and anxiety about my possessions and didn’t understand why – until I got help

Writer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: ‘The less the body works, the more you appreciate any bit that still does’

The writer and professor of English literature on being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and the more unexpected ways his life has been transformed