Patrick Radden Keefe on exposing the Sackler family’s links to the opioid crisis

The journalist tracked the billionaire arts philanthropists’ role in the OxyContin scandal in his gripping bestseller. He talks about why the bad guys are still getting away with it

The Man Who Tasted Words by Guy Leschziner review – making sense

What flavour is Tottenham Court Road? A riveting study of sensory function and malfunction

Outside, the Sky Is Blue by Christina Patterson review – faith, hope and trauma

A golden childhood is followed by family tragedies – but resilience and understanding triumph in this powerful memoir

Expectant mothers are too often treated as an inconvenience – and we can’t blame a TV drama for that

The BBC’s new show This Is Going to Hurt is about overstretched doctors – but patronising pregnant women is a long-standing problem, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker review – man and machine in harmony

An ex-soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan examines the implications of advances in medical technology with intelligence and humanity

Outside the Sky Is Blue review – the triumph of hope against the odds

Christina Patterson’s family memoir is crammed with challenges, setbacks, illness and death, and yet remains a wonderfully uplifting read

The Urge by Carl Erik Fisher review – against the war on drugs

A psychiatrist and former addict cautions against conflating drug use with harm in this fascinating historical survey

The big idea: is it time to stop worrying about stress?

Our beliefs about difficult feelings may do more damage than the feelings themselves

Everything Is True by Roopa Farooki review – the first 40 days on the Covid frontline

An author turned junior doctor’s account of the chaos at work and anguish at home as Covid-19 arrived in the UK is vital, cathartic reading

I love living on my own – so why am I so scared of the dark?

Megan Nolan always dreamed of having her own lovely home. But now terrifying thoughts keep her awake at night. Here, the author wonders why