Jen Sincero says she can make you a badass – has it worked for her millions of readers?

The self-help guru’s book You Are a Badass is a bestseller in the US and making waves in the UK. But can her brand of straight-talking positive thinking really help you escape your ‘sucky life’?

Sofia Helin: ‘I am both a happy and a melancholic person’

The Bridge actor on dealing with fear, meditating and why marriage is like two trees

Ade Adepitan: ‘I’d like to be the British Oprah’

Thebasketball player, TV presenter and author on pancakes, planning his wedding and living for holidays

The painful truth about fibroids: why FKA twigs is not alone

The singer has revealed that she had an operation to remove benign uterine tumours – a condition that affects a third of women. These growths can weigh as much as a baby, so why are they so often overlooked?

Sleep Demons by Bill Hayes review – an insomniac’s memoir

Reissued with a new preface, this intimate and beautifully written book brings scientific research alive in a heartfelt and deeply personal narrative

Amy Schumer’s new film shows Hollywood is the Sunken Place for smart women

Schumer claims I Feel Pretty is all about helping women’s self-esteem when it is in fact one long sneer at her and anyone else who doesn’t look like Emily Ratajkowski

Benjamin Zephaniah: ‘I don’t want to grow old alone’

The author and poet, 60, on why the best kung fu move is to run, how he’s going to try online dating and why it’s best not to touch his chocolate

‘Guaranteed to be devoid of excitement’: the book that wants to bore you to sleep

With its short chapters on railway gauges, Belgian politics and roundabouts, This Book Will Send You To Sleep promises to knock you out after a few pages. But tedium can prove addictive …

Dean Burnett: ‘Happiness shouldn’t be the default state in the human brain’

The neuroscientist and author of The Idiot Brain on the difficulty of trying to explain happiness and what he learned from Charlotte Church

The Wound review – raw pain and challenge of male circumcision drama

John Trengove’s boldly transgressive film tells the story of a city kid’s traditional initiation ritual and the secret gay sexuality of his mentors in a mountain retreat