Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker review – how more sleep can save your life
A neuroscientist has found a revolutionary way of being cleverer, more attractive, slimmer, happier, healthier and of warding off cancer – a good night’s shut-eye
Photography saved me. Staring down a lens, I re-ordered painful memories
After the breakdown of an abusive relationship, I lost a sense of myself and how I existed in the world. A Canon T-50 helped me find it
Want to be happier? First, work out if you’re an ‘upholder’ or a ‘rebel’
Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin says there are four basic personality types, and improving your life is all about working out whether you conform or rise up
The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World’s Happiest People by Meik Wiking – digested read
John Crace condenses the latest lifestyle advice from Scandinavia, in a bid to spread happiness
Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? review – thrills, pills and big pharma
This hard-hitting exhibition explores the impact of graphic design in health and pharmaceuticals as companies seek to educate, save lives, and sell their wares
Fearne Cotton webchat – your questions answered on Keith Lemon, Teletubbies and the future of radio
The presenter and writer spilled the beans on anger management, meeting the Royals and what she really thought of the ropiest Live Lounge performances
Book doulas: the new way to push your writing into the world
A cuddly new publishing service has arrived to help struggling authors with ‘bookbirthing’ – and for all its new-age trappings, it seems to be catching on
William Giraldi on life as a bookish bodybuilder: ‘It’s a poisoned way to be a man’
As a teenager, William Giraldi would pump himself full of steroids, hit the gym ... and secretly read Keats. His new memoir examines the absurdities of modern masculinity and envisages a better world in which his sons don’t get caught in its toxic grip
Lydia Towsey: how I discovered the Venus in me
From Botticelli to glossy magazines, women have been idealised and misrepresented for centuries. Performance poet Lydia Towsey reveals how her own near-fatal eating disorder set her on a path to explore new ways of looking at female bodies
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard – digested read
John Crace cuts the Norwegian author’s letter explaining the world to his unborn daughter