The links between pollution and miscarriage: ‘This is the stuff nightmares are made of’
Journalist Isabelle Oderberg has spent years researching the links between pollution and early pregnancy loss. What she has learned keeps her up at night
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands by Dasha Kiper review – how dementia changes lives
A clinical psychologist turns the spotlight on caregivers in this profoundly compassionate study
The People’s Hospital: why public healthcare can be successful in the US
A physician’s book details the success of a Houston hospital that treats uninsured Americans stranded by the system
The Art of the Straight Line review – how tai chi brought out Lou Reed’s mild side
The singer-songwriter transformed his later life practising the martial art, as this compilation of writing, edited by his widow Laurie Anderson, shows
Weathering by Arline Geronimus review – how discrimination makes you sick
A public health expert charts the cumulative effect of prejudice on peoples’ bodies, from heart disease to cancer
In brief: Don’t Think, Dear; My Nemesis; Handmade – reviews
A thoughtful memoir casts a critical eye on ballet, a gripping novel digs deep into feminine rivalry and a bracing manifesto extols the virtue of woodcraft
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