Sarah Wilson: ‘Worrying about your gut biome when the world’s burning is too indulgent’
From I Quit Sugar to the ‘shittification of life’, writer and journalist Sarah Wilson on breaking up with hope and finding happiness in collapse theory
Final autopsy results on Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, reveal complex health issues
Report confirms that Arakawa died of hantavirus and her husband, who had heart problems and Alzeimer’s disease, may not have realised she had died
Love My Face review – this presenter is an absolute gift to television
Jono Lancaster is a compassionate, authoritative presence – an absolute natural. It’s just a shame that we don’t get more of him in this show about helping people with facial differences overcome their issues with the way they look
Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes
The journalist’s second book offers positivity in the face of the obstacles confronting disabled girls and women
A lifesaving midwife in Afghanistan: Noriko Hayashi’s best photograph
‘This woman was nine months pregnant but had never had a checkup. Anisa is listening to the baby’s heartbeat with a stethoscope. After foreign aid cuts, including Trump’s, she is now out of a job’
‘We’d been through so much’: Jean Hannah Edelstein on breasts – and life without them
All her life Jean Hannah Edelstein had tried to feel comfortable with her breasts, battling unwelcome attention and breastfeeding woes. But then came cancer and a double mastectomy – and she realised she was losing something she loved
Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – with a little help from John, Paul, George and Ringo
The Guardian journalist’s tender account of how music became a bridge between him and his autistic son, James, is full of wit and wisdom
The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman review – a son confronts his mother’s decline
Didier Eribon’s guilt and shame fuels an angry and eloquent meditation on our attitudes towards the elderly and the end of life
The death of my friend inspired me to follow my standup dreams
For one writer, tragedy led to comedy, the sudden loss of a colleague giving her the nudge she needed
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse
A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies