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
‘Drama saved my life’: how performing can help mental health problems
May Contain Nuts is an award-winning theatre company of people with experience of mental ill health
Sexual addiction, desire and dopamine hits
Not all sex addicts are sexual predators – many are just struggling to contain their destructive urges. Andrew Anthony meets addicts and therapists to hear how they cope with this secretive pandemic
Orchestra conductor Marin Alsop: ‘I commute between the US and Brazil – the time zones almost line up’
The music director of the Baltimore and São Paulo symphony orchestras on evening work and getting by on short sleeps
Pumarosa’s Isabel Munoz-Newsome: ‘I didn’t get a smear test because I was embarrassed. Stupid’
Just as her band broke through and began a European tour, the singer was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She talks about her dramatic year
Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich review – wise words on real wellness
The author and activist’s sharp critique of what she calls an ‘epidemic of overdiagnosis’ is a joyous celebration of life