I’m happy for Chloë Sevigny, but the lesson is not that anyone can get pregnant at 45

Late pregnancies shouldn’t be framed as freakish feats or guaranteed back-up plans, but as stories of chance

The Goop Lab review – so Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t know what a vagina is

Like the star’s wellness brand, this whole show is a demented paean to self-indulgence. And for someone peddling health treatments, she seems alarmingly ignorant about anatomy

Can We Be Happier? by Richard Layard review – a breathless tribute to the “science of happiness”

This hard sell from the former ‘happiness tsar’ may be a work of passion but it is slapdash, paternalistic and liable to cause some misery

The age of the individual must end – our world depends on it

The costs of a culture focused on an illusory idea of personal autonomy are making us ill and heating our planet. But a new age may be dawning

Richard Layard: ‘It’s in politicians’ self-interest to make policies for happiness’

The economist on the science of happiness – and how it can help us rethink the world

The Self Delusion by Tom Oliver review – how we are connected and why that matters

Forget the idea that humans are independent individuals. We need to grasp that we are part of ecosystems

Cuttin’ It review – tale of friendship and FGM still wields terrible power

Charlene James’s 2016 play about female genital mutilation combines a powerful social message with bursts of humour

Joy of pecs: Jessica Fostekew, the weightlifting comic shredding body fascism

When her trainer called muscly women ‘unfeminine’, the standup turned her outrage into a hilarious show full of sweat, barbells, chalk and childbirth

You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy review – a modern epidemic of self-absorbed talk

Restaurants are noisy, social media connections are shallow, giving a TED talk is living the dream. What happened to conversation?

The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan review – psychiatry’s dubious past

Brilliant detective work reveals that a famous study of psychiatric hospitals was mostly fiction, but what are the implications?