What can we learn about our wellbeing from memoirs of ill health?
Simon Gray, Christopher Hitchens, Joan Didion ... some of the most vivid memoirs have been accounts of illness. But what can they teach us about being well?
Strap on your sleep pack! The trippy VR show that takes you to dreamland
After a bedtime story with a giant teddy, you fly with geese and cross rickety rope bridges. Our writer steps into the world of Somnai
Female-dominated Wellcome book prize shortlist spans Victorian surgery and modern Nigeria
Titles vying for £30,000 award for books on health and medicine include Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s novel Stay With Me and Sigrid Rausing’s memoir Mayhem
Epitaph for the Ash by Lisa Samson – review
Lisa Samson’s reflections on Britain’s dying ash trees at a time of her own illness is a remarkable labour of love
Let’s see menopausal women on screen – in all their glory
The absence of the menopause in popular culture shows that it remains taboo – and women pay the price, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore
Russell Tovey: ‘When I started having sex I panicked because I didn’t feel old enough’
The actor, 36, talks to Juliana Piskorz about always feeling that everything was happening too quickly, the positivity of New York and the calming influence of his partner
One Born Every Minute review – childbirth needs no added drama
It captures the emotions of childbirth well – but maybe manufactures a little too much tension when things start to go wrong
In brief: Grief Works; Love After Love; Mothers – review
Bereavement case studies from therapist Julia Samuel, a cautionary tale of infidelity by Alex Hourston, and short stories by Chris Power
David Baddiel: ‘Social media is just people saying stuff – I’m used to hecklers’
The comedian, 53, on why he feeds Twitter trolls, monitoring his memory and living as honestly as possible
‘The magic of cinema’: the club supporting older people with HIV
The Terrence Higgins Trust initiative aims to combat loneliness and encourage discussion through a shared love of film