Future Sex: Emily Witt on new ways of understanding porn, marriage and love
The author discusses her investigation of the new world of relationships and sexuality opening up in the digital age
How to master the art of change in a world in flux
For her book Metamorphosis, Polly Morland interviewed everyone from a man who lost 18 stone to a monk who fell in love. Then Trump and Brexit happened …
Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain): a graphic memoir with balls
From his back to his stomach to his testicles, Robert Wells had been in pain for decades – but no one in the NHS believed him. So he turned it all into a hilarious graphic novel
A moment that changed me: living on my own, and taking control of my life
Moving into a flat alone in my 30s gave me a sense of freedom and a new emotional space in which my creative self could grow
Bulletproof Coffee’s Dave Asprey: why healthy eating and exercise aren’t enough
The tech entrepreneur was once overweight and unfocused. Now his ‘brain‑boosting’ diet has made him the toast of Silicon Valley
Top 10 books about psychoanalysis
Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure
Ice baths and snow meditation: can cold therapy make you stronger?
When Scott Carney set out to debunk the health benefits of extreme cold, a strange thing happened. He tells Tim Adams about lighting his ‘inner fire’
A matter of life and death: William Boyd on the rise of the surgeon-memoir
As surgery finds its voice in literature, what are the responsibilities, risks and rewards of working in the fraught world of the operating theatre?
Sound by Bella Bathurst review – losing and recovering the miracle of hearing
This fascinating memoir of a dozen years of deafness opens out into an exploration of science, music and silence
‘As addictive as gardening’: how dangerous is video gaming?
Snooker player Neil Robertson blamed a recent drop in form on video game addiction. But was he right to? We speak to the researchers trying to find out