Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s lockdown listening: ‘Doing handstands, that’s the time for music’
The LA ambient composer shares what she’s been listening to while upside down, from Caribou to Zimbabwean polyrhythms
The Easy Bit review – how men get to grips with IVF
This well-intentioned documentary about the first step in fertility treatment has moments of humour but is too emotionally hectoring
Touch saved me from loneliness. What will we become without it?
Touch is essential to our wellbeing, from the time we are babies. It’s how we transmit meaning, care, love and community. Our sudden loss of it has been agonising
How we made the Keep Calm and Carry On poster
‘When I’m asked why it’s so popular, I always say the same thing: it’s cheaper than antidepressants’
Sitopia by Carolyn Steel review – big questions about food
An ‘all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts’
Isabel Hardman: ‘One of my most exciting botanical finds was in a Glasgow car park’
The journalist and author on how nature can boost mental health treatment, even on lockdown
Endell Street by Wendy Moore review – the suffragette surgeons
A fascinating, carefully researched study of life partners who became pioneering army hospital doctors in the first world war
Goldie Hawn: ‘I was born with a high set point for happiness’
One of the biggest film stars of the 70s and 80s, Hawn left acting and producing behind for 15 years. She talks about Hollywood, patriarchy, dancing – and how meditation changed her life
The Better Half by Sharon Moalem review – on the genetic superiority of women
Women live longer than men. We know Covid-19 is killing more men than women. This book is an antidote to the myth of the ‘weaker sex’
Tiger King and a bloody mary: Hilary Mantel, Simon Armitage and other writers on lockdown life
Simon Armitage pogos to neo-punk, Anne Enright craves for Cary Grant, The Seventh Seal cheers up Julian Barnes, Diana Evans works out to hip-hop and Jeanette Winterson talks to herself … writers reveal how they’re surviving the corona crisis