Bradford puts money on libraries to boost city’s health
£700,000 could be diverted from Yorkshire council’s wellbeing budget to offset library cuts
Dear Life by Rachel Clarke review – a doctor on grief, love and the NHS
A medic’s heartbreaking personal account of the loss of her father, and of witnessing the courage of the critically ill
Picture books on prescription
A scheme for GPs to recommend books for mental health and wellbeing is extending its reach to younger readers. Which are the best titles for anxiety, grief or online pressures?
Beyond borders: the best books about pandemics
As the coronavirus has spread to four continents, Laura Spnney chooses scientific studies, memoirs and novels about Aids, TB, polio and Spanish flu
Great expectations: art’s struggle to depict pregnancy
From the Virgin Mary to Demi Moore, art history swells with iconic mums-to-be. But can a single image ever do justice to such a head-scrambling state of flux – especially one made by a man?
I love going to the cinema alone, and not just for the popcorn
As a child, I assumed lone movie-goers had no friends. Do teenagers think this of me?
Dr Rachel Clarke: ‘Wrinkles, middle age, grey hairs… these are reasons to celebrate’
The palliative care doctor on her moving new memoir, Boris Johnson’s broken promises, and why the way we treat dying people should be the number one metric of a civilised society
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