Shift your vibe! 60 quick ways to make yourself slightly happier

Things feeling a bit stale? These small tweaks to your routine will turn things around, boost your mood and could even make you a better person …

Preventable by Devi Sridhar review – a resolutely global view of Covid

One of the best-known public intellectuals of the pandemic gives her account of two years that shook the world

My Chemical Romance: how the vilified band turned antipathy into triumph

MCR split but survived emo’s moral panic to leave a shining legacy for all outsiders – especially young people struggling emotionally or those who refuse gender binaries

Bittersweet by Susan Cain review – a mawkish manifesto for the happy-sad

The author of Quiet again bangs the drum for the world’s sensitive souls, but her unflagging earnestness is depressingly short of nuance and humour

The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – astonishing adventures in precognition

How the Aberfan disaster prompted one psychiatrist to launch a nationwide search for ‘seers’ who could predict the future

A moment that changed me: my dream job healed my excruciating pain

The autoimmune disease lupus had ruined my life until I landed an interview at the Southbank Centre. After years of trying to fit in I’d found my tribe – and a way to get better

My party outfit was so fancy I couldn’t even use the toilet. Some joker still told me I looked ‘comfy’

I like a compliment as much as the next woman. But why do they so often leave us smarting, asks the comedian, actor and writer Jessica Fostekew

A new start after 60: ‘I won MasterChef – and finally learned to believe in myself’

Life as a retired banker bored Irini Tzortzoglou, so she decided to enter MasterChef. She trained hard, won the competition and now works as a chef, writer and public speaker

After my sister died I didn’t know what to do with my furious pain – but poets and horses led the way

I was heartbroken and angry but horse riding and medieval poetry revealed the quest I was on, says Clover Stroud

Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell

Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author