Are cleaning gurus sweeping an epidemic under the carpet?
Repetitive tasks can help with anxiety, but can we trust them to safeguard women’s mental health? By Eva Wiseman
Unspeakable by Harriet Shawcross – a personal study of silence
As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking for a year. Her attempt to make sense of that experience investigates the essence of language itself
The Brink of Being by Julia Bueno review – we need to talk about miscarriage
A thoughtful study of pregnancy loss offers a candid discussion that few are prepared to have
A Deal With the Universe review – one man’s journey to give birth
Jason Barker’s documentary about having to put his transitioning on hold while he tried to become pregnant is filled with gentleness
Sorry, guys, you can’t be an actor and moan about body image
Richard Madden is the latest actor to reveal the stress of having to achieve a certain body type. Isn’t that his job, asks Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore
Molly Case, the NHS nurse who finds poetry on the wards
The student nurse whose impassioned poem about the NHS went viral talks about her new memoir
Game of Thrones, cancer and me…
When TV critic Sarah Hughes was told she had incurable cancer, one of the first questions that popped into her head was: what if I don’t find out how GoT ends? Here she describes the part the saga has played in the hardest parts of her life
The Nocturnal Brain by Guy Leschziner review – bizarre sleep stories
From eating and motorbike riding while asleep to corks in the bed as a cure for restless legs – a neurologist’s casebook
What Dementia Teaches Us about Love by Nicci Gerrard review – savage realities
A powerful and beautifully written account, centred on the experience of the author’s father, and identifying a crisis in care
Rodent leather and designer kidneys: art in the age of bio-revolution
Bespoke breasts, cloned frog meat and a gold gimp suit all feature in a remarkable new exhibition exploring the cutting edge of science